I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for a moment Nicholas could not help… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
I follow my own nose. So I read things that are different. People will always say to me, "Have you read Robert… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good… — James L. Buckley Copy Share Image
Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet. Our spirits by the love we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Have I got a black book? Yes, it's called a mobile phone. I do get offers. There is no shortage of people… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Is this a topic whose time has truly come? The integration of science and religion? Or have I just written a clever… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
We are on the cusp of a marketing revolution. And it's being led by YOU. — Mark Schaefer Copy Share Image
There's always been this feedback between comics and films. But I think that if you take that analogy too far, if you… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct. — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
