There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People read newspapers far more than they read the Word of God and then we wonder way America is in the mess… — Lester Roloff Copy Share Image
Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My point here, young couples, is that baby-having is extremely serious business, and you probably don't have the vaguest idea what you're… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. There are some advantages… — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
I decided to make myself a little less precious with my storytelling. I think you can see from the first three pieces… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
“No creas que estoy enfadada contigo. Sólo estoy triste. Por que tú has sido muy amable conmigo, y, a cambio, no he… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My first book was so horrible I have deleted all copies of it. Thankfully, it was before the Internet, so there are… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
“In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases,… — Stuart Dodgson Collingwood Copy Share Image
The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I found that inevitably you cannot fit everything that is in that book into what is inevitably going to go on screen. — Mike Vogel Copy Share Image
The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
The book Love and Trouble is asserting that sexuality lives inside us, and in the culture, and in the people who do… — Claire Dederer Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Because you can always count on a book to stay the same . Everything changes when you least expect it, she replies,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Mais enfin, bande de critiques, les livres que vous ne comprenez pas ne vaudraient-ils pas au moins que vous les signaliez? For… — Boris Vian Copy Share Image
“Don't tell me you're reading it,' she said, as if I were doing something to the book, whereas in fact the book… — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages,… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I… — Sean Bean Copy Share Image
I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live. — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you;… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
A lot of the time with jobs that I've booked, immediately I'll read the breakdown, or I'll read the script, and I'm… — India Eisley Copy Share Image
The thing about angel investing, which I get into in the book a lot is, you actually don't have to understand the… — Jason Calacanis Copy Share Image
You have to have talent to some extent - I certainly hope I have talent - but you have to have luck… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I got all these books about, like, what you need to know to enter the entertainment industry. And I remember I sent… — Lindsey Stirling Copy Share Image
“Book Hangover - The inability to start a new books because you're still living in the last book's world.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
It's the originality of Pauls Toutonghi's voice and vision that makes this such a remarkable novel. Toutonghi is a true daredevil of… — Skip Horack Copy Share Image
Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
