The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what's more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the… — Buddhadasa Bhikkhu Copy Share Image
Just remember: you're not a 'dummy,' no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who-though technically expert-couldn't… — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.” — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text. — John Green Copy Share Image
I love cooking. People seem to enjoy my food, but I absolutely love it. I'm one of those people who will buy… — Polly Walker Copy Share Image
You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I like looking at a book and asking myself, 'How do I replicate that experience I just had as a reader?' — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I first got really interested in Noh in about 1977. There was an independent bookstore in Bloomington, Indiana where I was going… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I'm around my kids every day. I'm regular. We're a regular family. My wife cooks, she washes clothes, I read books, I… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
Media is so weird; everything is so accessible now. It used to be this thing where, if you did something on 'This… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image