Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land, as the sower sows his wheat-field. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults. — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The choice is yours: Enjoy a delicious meal of, say, veal fantarella with grilled vegetables. Or spend a quiet hour reading David… — Liz Curtis Higgs Copy Share Image
A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end. — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard. — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Books were seen as a waste of time. What was the point, unless you were reading for information? To lose oneself in… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real… — Christian Slater Copy Share Image
A shame really, because putting the right book in the right kid’s hands is kind of like giving that kid superpowers. — Cecil Castellucci Copy Share Image
Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Violence always leads to pain" Trendal Malian- Ishtaria: Prince of Blades” — Keith Collier Copy Share Image
For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
“People say everybody has a book inside them, so why not make your life a great story?” — Martha Louise Hunter Copy Share Image
I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a book, I do not know where the energy and the words come from. I just… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
A wise man, when he writes a book, sets forth his arguments fully and clearly; an enlightened ruler, when he makes his… — Han Fei Copy Share Image
“Your book is awesome! It makes me want to go out and become a chef!” Henry C. Smith, San Francisco April 2014” — Dr. Vivienne Kruger Copy Share Image
“Brrr, who had never admired books particularly...didn't remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“The greatest book ever composed was marked at one point unconventional. Also it was marked difficult to read and comprehend, especially in… — Marcus G Monroe Copy Share Image
The book[ The Thorn and The Blossom] is a love story about two people, Brendan and Evelyn, who meet in a small… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
I hear some guy teaches a course in diagrammatic thinking now; he's written books on it and stuff like that, and so… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
When television is good, nothing - not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers - nothing is better. But when television is… — Newton N. Minow Copy Share Image
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
On her daughter, Jessica: Kids at her school will sidle up to me and say, Does Jessica know what happens in book… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I think every filmmaker makes different choices. I remember in the early days, in some of the early comic book movies, certain… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image