I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the… — William Safire Copy Share Image
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
I liked fetching the washing from the Moscrops', and my mother liked washing for Mrs. Moscrop better than for anyone else. That… — Howard Spring Copy Share Image
It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I really need to know where I'm going with fiction to write it in a way that at least I'm happy with.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
I found Esau’s field guide at the bottom of my pack. Taking a candle into the bedroom, I read his book until… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print.… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
Love. Healing. Help. Hope. The power of Christ to counter all troubles in all times—including the end of times. That is the… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
Very much in my books people find not surrogate families because they are real families. We've got families that we're related to… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Everyone in the world should read this book... We should read it to learn about the world and what it means to… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Books of natural history aim commonly to be hasty schedules, or inventories of God's property, by some clerk. They do not in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Don't believe everything you read. It's very difficult to be accepting of our own bodies. This topic deserves it's own book, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Interestingly, I never thought Id do an adaptation. Ive also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to… — Andrea Arnold Copy Share Image
“My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects. The swallow over my window should interweave that thread… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sanity and enlightenment...I've been reading a new book Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries, and it contains a commentary on Genjo Koan by… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Some people buried their fears in food, she knew, and some in booze, and some in planning elaborate engagements and weddings and… — Jenny Colgan Copy Share Image
“One of the things I love about books is being able to define and condense certain portions of a character's life into… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
Everything we know has its origin in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. Then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I'm on the couch, I usually have the TV on and my MacBook Air nearby. And sometimes, when my ADD is… — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
