I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson. — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life. — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
My sister played the piano. She's two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all. — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s,… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a long and difficult process for me. I'm a slow writer, so I spend the year with Elvis… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
Life is very full of sex, or should be. As much as I admire Tolkien - and I do, he was a… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Finally, this book can — and should — be read as a story of growth from knowledge into wisdom, of intellectual and spiritual education.” — Bob P. Buford Copy Share Image
When I illustrate a cover or a book, I draw upon what the author tells me; that's how I see my responsibility… — Mary GrandPre Copy Share Image
The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Do you have any old copies of Dickens? Bookseller: We've got a copy of David Copperfield from 1850 for $150. Customer: Why… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
“When I Read the Book" When I read the book, the biography famous, And is this then (said I) what the author… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end… — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I seem to have three categories of readers. The first is nonbelievers who are glad that I am reading the Bible so… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
Following takes why. Transactions take what. It has to be real. It has to be the same for writing a book. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
The radio has so many rules, and songs don't. You don't necessarily write to a rule book unless you're, like, just doing… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
