I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are… — George Weah Copy Share Image
The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“...if you can change the fate of a character you read out of a book by adding new words to his story,… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my… — Julie Bowen Copy Share Image
I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“I like how books let you into another world, but how it's secret. Like, when you read, the world you see is… — Clare Fisher Copy Share Image
The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
If you want to be an actor, you should keep confident. Don't get too much of an ego and become not humble.… — Nolan Gould Copy Share Image
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“They say the content and the cover are the most important things when it comes to a book or a novel, right?… — Jimmy Tudeski Copy Share Image
Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“Books can move people, inspire people, change people's lives, and even impact whole societies. They are certainly worth spending an afternoon with.” — Jan Surasky Copy Share Image
I think when I write movies and plays and books and magazine articles, they're all storytelling, and reality is the common denominator… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
You were firing questions at me today, trying to get inside my head. You asked if I believed in God. I told… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Lempriere's Bibliotecha Classica?" she said, reading the title. She looked up at him, her eyes wide. "How did you know?" He shrugged,… — Megan Frampton Copy Share Image
The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I'm an avid plant collector, and I love to ride… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
Everything I do is under scrutiny. And one of the things different, I think, about me is that my life has been… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.” — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
We say that God is true; that the Constitution of the United States is true; that the Bible is true; and that… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels. — Alison Tyler Copy Share Image
“I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see.” — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
“To whom shall I offer this book, young and sprightly, Neat, polished, wide-margined, and finished politely? To you, my Cornelius, whose learning… — Gaius Valerius Catullus Copy Share Image
Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts… — Ezra Jack Keats Copy Share Image
I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
There are innumerable writing problems in an extended work. One book took a little more than six years. You, the writer, change… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I found a book in my elementary school library when I was ten called 'All about You' which was a book on… — Steven Gundry Copy Share Image
“Something’s wrong in the air, you know, when a book costs less than a bullet. Or a Coke. Values-wise.” — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble. — William Drummond Copy Share Image
