There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“There is a class whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles; Southey's Chronicle of the Cid ; Cervantes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release. — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
I was quite a weird kid because I didn't like getting presents. I don't know why. I just went for books all… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“An important book for understanding the history of our economic boom & bust cycles. It's an eye-opening account of how we are… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
“With its weight and solidity, a book signals to the world that there are ideas worth preserving in a form that carries… — Steven L. Carter Copy Share Image
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There has never been a book like this. At once a poetics of place, a work of deep history, a bildungsroman, and… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share Image
We didn't want to dilute or soften the material because that would really be irresponsible, in its own way. The [Hunger Games]… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author; usually only one. — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Long ago I fell back on books as the only permanent consolers. They are the one stainless and unimpeachable achievement of the… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I was little, my older brother, Gary, was forced to read a book a week in fourth grade. The books he… — Keith Hernandez Copy Share Image
A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past.… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It is… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
“I imagine he knows magic, if he is reading books. The book itself doesn’t matter. It’s that he found another world in… — Rene Denfeld Copy Share Image
Every rippling muscle is a book not read, a movie not seen, or a conversation not held. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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