This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my… — Isaac Mayer Wise Copy Share Image
“I am not entirely persuaded that selling a book is like selling a pig.” — Kathleen A. Flynn Copy Share Image
After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
“Gwen, a woman with BPD, talks about her inability to decipher the world around her. “On the day I was born, all… — Valerie Porr M.A Copy Share Image
Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long,… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this: you'll… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
Digiphrenia - how technology lets us be in more than one place - and self - at the same time. Drone pilots… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“This place is a mystery. A sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
When I am playing, I try to keep the genre very easy-going and breezy. I can't be into the book and not… — Mithali Raj Copy Share Image
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Okay. Now my skin is really prickling. I've read all the Harry Potter books, all five of them. I don't remember any… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I was in the beginning when [comic book superheroes] started, but not anymore. Now I expect it. I've gotten very used to… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai… — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image
Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Any opportunity to play Ms. Marvel or project myself into her in any version, comic book movie, otherwise, I'll be happy to. — Iman Vellani Copy Share Image
I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father… — Paula Danziger Copy Share Image
“What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all… — John Bright Copy Share Image
“When you told me you wrote a book, I laughed. Then I read it, and I wasn't laughing any more. It was… — My Husband about Demon Mine Copy Share Image
Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
Book critics or theatre critics can be derisively negative and gain delighted praise for the trenchant with of their review. But in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image