There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any… — Johann Most Copy Share Image
“The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
In terms of music, each novel is different but I usually find my way into an era through the music. In this… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
He pointed the gun at me. Then he looked up at my hand & tilted his head slightly. - Journey, he said.… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Books are just dead words on paper and it is the readers who bring the stories alive. Previously, writers wrote a book… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“study: The reading of books or examination of other materials to gain knowledge. Page 5.” — Sean Clouden Copy Share Image
When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to believe there are people that don’t read books. There’s so much magic in words and well told stories.” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
“An authors publication date never matters, a book not read yet will always be New"...” — Catherine Lyon a Copy Share Image
For me, being a rap fan and the nostalgia of me being a kid, rappers and guys on the street told me… — Pusha T Copy Share Image
If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor,… — James Collins Copy Share Image
When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant,… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette -throw "Roderick Random" into the closet -put… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Tides of History provides a splendid prism through which we may view the wider world of Victorian science. . . . Historians… — William M. Fowler Copy Share Image
Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
I read Slash's book because we were on the road together with Velvet Revolver when that came out. — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
I highly recommend reading the book 'Confessions Of A Video Vixen.' — Katherine Ryan Copy Share Image
“I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
To us, to the everyday teachers of everyday students, neither of whom is writing the book of the universe but who both… — Marshall Gregory Copy Share Image
It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Instead of sending guns, send books. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
People were, in good faith perhaps, writing history books about the Indian working class, Indian peasantry, et cetera, and at no point… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
Miracles is the sort of book that once you've read it you'll wonder where it's been all your life — Kathie Lee Gifford Copy Share Image
A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
The plot is very important because writers have to play fair with their readers, but no one would care about the plot… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Selling one's book to Hollywood is rather like selling someone your house. After it's sold, it isn't yours anymore. They can paint… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul’s research is extraordinary;… — Debby Applegate Copy Share Image
I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
