In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults. — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The choice is yours: Enjoy a delicious meal of, say, veal fantarella with grilled vegetables. Or spend a quiet hour reading David… — Liz Curtis Higgs Copy Share Image
A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end. — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard. — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Books were seen as a waste of time. What was the point, unless you were reading for information? To lose oneself in… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real… — Christian Slater Copy Share Image
A shame really, because putting the right book in the right kid’s hands is kind of like giving that kid superpowers. — Cecil Castellucci Copy Share Image
Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Violence always leads to pain" Trendal Malian- Ishtaria: Prince of Blades” — Keith Collier Copy Share Image
For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
“People say everybody has a book inside them, so why not make your life a great story?” — Martha Louise Hunter Copy Share Image
I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a book, I do not know where the energy and the words come from. I just… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
