“She asked her parents to buy him the books she’d been read by her first teachers, Peter Rabbit and Frog and Toad.… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For me, the goal is always to write a novel that I myself would like to read. People frequently ask me what… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
“The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
To move up to hardcover is a way of getting more attention for my books. It means a lot to me: It… — Karen Robards Copy Share Image
Marvelously entertaining, Gabrielle Donnellys The Little Women Letters evokes the spirit of Louisa May Alcotts Little Women with warmth and affection. I… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
“This was real life, not a book. And in real life, people met, nothing happened, and you went home. Or they went… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
“He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule to never touch a book by any… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Books did not need to be beautiful back in the Fifties, because nothing else was beautiful back then. Books were simply there:… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
[the best advice about women] was from Robert Evans. The line was in his book, but he told me, "When it comes… — Slash Copy Share Image
“Use your little grey cells mon ami" (Hercule Poirot in 'The Mysterious Affair At Styles')” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
The Bible is a wonderful book. It is the truth about the Truth. It is not the Truth. A sermon taken from… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
This book was not written because I wanted to offer a supreme model to the man who struggles; I wanted to show… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“Sally was on the first floor reading a book, one that she normally wouldn't read, and she felt quite guilty. Twilight. She… — Anjela Myrick Copy Share Image
“I shouldn’t need to remind you that it was words that created the universe and The Word that now holds it together.… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Every morning, after a few sips of coffee and a bit of small talk, each of us retreats with our books, and… — Yxta Maya Murray Copy Share Image
When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less… — Frank Abagnale Copy Share Image
I've been asked to write a book several times; I've had several publishers come to me and offer me book deals. Especially… — Mike Portnoy Copy Share Image
I realized my family was famous because I was looking in my history book and I saw my grandfather. — Sky Blu Copy Share Image
“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
“On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I am only human.Perfect in my imperfections.My mistakes help mold me but they do not define me.Don't judge my book cover if… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
“I read all of those books I always wanted to read, or reread... And I feel full. Until I finish a book.… — Jill Davis Copy Share Image
You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate… — Jan Clausen Copy Share Image
Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as I begin… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image