When I think of you, and you are not there, I see you in my mind's eye always with a book in… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Dad is looking at the bookshelves, deep in thought, deciding which book should go where. Once, Mom came home from work and… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
You can't throw a rock without a comic book character falling out of a tree. — Morena Baccarin Copy Share Image
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
But knowing that the world had come full circle to our Depression story didn't change the way we worked on it, or… — James Vance Copy Share Image
“And since a novel has this correspondence to real life, its values are to some extent those of real life. But it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
And it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a schoolteacher in some urban location. But he… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints. — David Augsburger Copy Share Image
“To get a true sense of the book, I have to spend a few moments inside. I'll glance at the first couple… — Amy Krouse Rosenthal Copy Share Image
Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I come from the Lynchs of Sligo. You know, I went there, but I looked in the phone book and there are… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
“I know no greater bore than the man who insists on lending you a book which you do not intend to read.” — Harold Rabinowitz Copy Share Image
My role is to promote the authors image and their new books. I'm also brought on board when the author is "between… — Tom Robinson Copy Share Image
I had always been told the bible was a book about love, but I couldn't find enough love in it to fill… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
“You can possess a book without really owning it, though. Beyond ownership in a commercial or legal sense, there’s ownership of an… — Blake Morrison Copy Share Image
Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The whole point was just to be yourself, no matter what that was. You didn't have to fit into a certain punk-rock… — John Porcellino Copy Share Image
“For a bit, he picked up the paperbacks, thumbed the worn edges. Military thrillers. Books with clear right and wrong where the… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
“-- that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope,… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
“Books should broaden us, take us to places we have never been and show us things we’ve never seen, expand our horizons… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would… — Gloria Whelan Copy Share Image
Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You know I didn't start writing books until after I left Søren. I could barely get out of bed that first month.… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
It takes me about a week and a half to read the typical book. I don't know how many ten-day spans I… — Ken Kalfus Copy Share Image
You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Just as with swimming or riding a bike, you can't really learn how to fall in love from reading a book not… — Nicholas Boothman Copy Share Image
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. That's one of the beauties of African American life. There was this thing… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books.… — Lorene Cary Copy Share Image
Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I came to America when I was seven and a half in 91. I think the first full length book in English… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image