Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own. — Holly Smale Copy Share Image
I'm pretty much an open book. I am a fanatic golfer and golf nut. If I have three free hours any day,… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to… — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
I never know what something is going to be until it emerges from the womb and you see the crown of its… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved. — Carlos Drummond de Andrade Copy Share Image
I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin...' kind of book. There's so much more… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
“But Toulmin and Goodfield's Fabric of the Heavens (1962.), an old book recently reprinted, is my favorite.” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
How did you escape? (Syd) I fought my way out in a manner that would have made Rambo proud. And when I… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Dave Wann's recipes from his own experience in Simple Prosperity are a breath of fresh air, and just what we need for… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think… — Richard R. Nelson Copy Share Image
The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after… — Sid Fleischman Copy Share Image
I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies… — Tom Araya Copy Share Image
Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“The important thing is that another medium—stage, film, music—doesn’t obliterate a book. The movie is here now, on a big screen, with… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
