The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living. — Nancy Spain Copy Share Image
I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I know that the way to be a really successful writer is to write the same kind of book over and over… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here. — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
I think everybody came into it with the understanding that they would go through an experience that is literally not by the… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
The book I made it big with in the U.S. was my fourth book, 'Sanctum.' My novels sell really well both there… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
There are a number of things that I'm trying to get into the books. There's a meta-fictional aspect, if I may use… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Two years passed, and I had no second book to follow 'Roots.' Four years passed, six years. When a decade had passed… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
“A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think each book has its own way of accommodating my concerns, whether it's about race, America, technology, the city. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Buy ammunition! Remember that a man cannot have too many books, too many wines, or too much ammunition. Our adversaries on the… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
“This book is like a supreme car which can drive the world to a new horizon. N.DAS Humans declared themselves masters of… — Antonio Negri Copy Share Image
Johnston's books are beautifully written and among the funniest I have ever read. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, and I resolved as a lawyer and… — Salmon P. Chase Copy Share Image
If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period. — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
