“I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Richard Price, who has made a fortune writing fake ghetto books, says he takes a cab into the ghetto, transcribes Black speech… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.” — Jim Lewis Copy Share Image
I found this book that had every 'Peanuts' strip from 1952 to 1955 and read every one. Amazing. So now I can… — Noah Schnapp Copy Share Image
“Child, all books are magic. Just think,' he said, 'about what books make people do. People go to war on the basis… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
Deeply disturbing in a way that only the most honest stories are, YACCUB is a fiercely written, daring journey through America's urban… — Brandon Massey Copy Share Image
The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
"The diary, "My diary. Little Ginny's been writing in it for months and months, telling me all her pitiful worries and woes… — Tom Riddle Copy Share Image
The other thing that I got back then - the Parker novels have never had much of anything to do with race.… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Joseph Smith could not have picked a better year to start The Book of Mormon than 600 B.C. — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
“Books are like friends you can never put them down no matter how much you hate it...” — morgan Copy Share Image
Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his… — Fay Wray Copy Share Image
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
If a book has a predictable storyline or familiar situations, there's little satisfaction for me in writing it. A woman deciding which… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises… — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I think for Lev [Grossman], C. S. Lewis was a huge inspiration from his childhood. I know that Brideshead Revisited is a… — Hale Appleman Copy Share Image
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