There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“So the beloved children's book author took a deep breath, opened his own book to the very first page, and began reading,… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book called The Fugu Plan, written by Marvin Tokayer and Mary Swartz, which describes the circumstances when European Jews… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
I was one of those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm not a very glamorous person. I like to just sit alone in a room and read a book or meditate. — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I think the biggest influence on the book, as far as the humor goes, comes, at least indirectly, from the men I… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Of course it is very limiting to be labeled a lesbian or queer writer. We live in a homophobic culture, and even… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“Each book is a new book. I’ve never written it before and I have to teach myself how to write it as… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The health benefits, both mental and physical, of humor are well documented. A good laugh can diffuse tension, relieve stress, and release… — Cherie Carter-Scott Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.” — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“Writing books is a suicidal profession. No other demands as much time, as much work, as much dedication, by comparison with its… — Gerald Martin Copy Share Image
I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
“Let your words glorify God and edify your hearers and then beautify your life.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
I find myself using music metaphors all the time, but this is too perfect, I feel like. Digital downloading is like photographs… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them? -Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book, to… — Yogi Berra Copy Share Image
I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realise any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around. — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture. — David Lloyd Copy Share Image
“What shall I do with all my books?' was the question, and the answer, 'Read them,' sobered the questioner. But if you… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Of course you can judge a book by its cover; moreover, we are obliged to.” — Simon Garfield Copy Share Image
Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format. — Dick Bruna Copy Share Image
As a young man, I was very interested in how people lived in earlier times; how they got from place to place,… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
You can't start a new chapter of the book if you keep re-reading the last one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books. — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal. — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that they open their leaves more cordially; that… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I think the reason I've published so few books is that I have a pretty high expectation of self-reinvention between books and… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
