“That is what a book is: a million little things, a thousand feelings, hundreds of experiences, all melted together and sculpted into… — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
All the great naturalists have been habitual walkers, for no laboratory, no book, car, train or plane takes the place of honest… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only… — Anthony Anaxagorou Copy Share Image
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think sometimes the way to preserve the magic of a book is to throw it away - meaning, not to cling… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I cannot life for life itself: but for the words which stay the flux. My life, I feel, will not be lived… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
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When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We used to work with a promoter in Italy who used to book for shows with nine hour drives in between, so… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
I love this book! There are very few cookbooks published today that add something truly new and distinctive to the literature of… — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share Image
I knew she was a party girl. The book I liked most on her was called [princess] Margaret: A Life of Contrasts… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
“The things you're looking for...are in the world, but the only way the average chap will see ninety-nine percent of them is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
There are enough women to do the childbearing and the childrearing. I know of none who can write my books. — Henry Handel Richardson Copy Share Image
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It has no meaning, what do you use to write, the only thing that is important is: what do you write. A… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins. — Jonathan Daniels Copy Share Image
It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know. An American author does not need to know… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image