Writers are stewards of the culture. Publishers, librarians, bookstore owners. We're all in this together. To write books that are gripping, important,… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there's no guarantee that you will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it.… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
My books are offered through Podiobooks.com and the iTunes Music Store as free audio downloads. I don't sell them. — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
Don't cry." "How can I not?" I asked him. "You just said you loved me." "Well, why else did you think all… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd. — Joe Manganiello Copy Share Image
That's what everybody tells me. "I would've had a great comic-book collection, but my mother made me throw them away." But when… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker,… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Write the book you wish you could find on the shelf but can't.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“A book, too, can be a star, “explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,” a living fire to lighten the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
“One expert may be as good as another until one writes a book” — Bernard Kelvin Clive Copy Share Image
Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“To be in the middle of composing a book is almost always to feel oneself in a state of confusion, doubt and… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
