Tupac gave us validity. Tupac made the kid getting beat up every day realize that it was okay to be smart. Tupac… — Bevy Smith Copy Share Image
Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Told with rare honesty, My Accidental Jihad is the story of Krista Bremer's lifelong quest for insight and understanding, a search that… — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page. — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is the task of the translator? I think the task depends on the book and on the translator. — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
Basically, you know, write the book you want to read, be the band you want to hear, grow the food you want… — Tripp York Copy Share Image
I've never tried to pass myself off as anything more than a comedian who wrote a dating book. — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“None of this seems real,” said Alice. “I’m like Alice in Wonderland. Remember how much I hated that book? Because nothing made… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“This book is a guide to living life the right way, like the Bible is for crazies and weak people (JK, bro),… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
“The trick isn’t to simply publish a book; the trick is to produce a quality book package to surround the book’s content” — hank quense Copy Share Image
For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“Every book should begin with attractive endpapers,' he had once told Meggie. 'Preferably in a dark color: dark red or dark blue… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I think I get from my books what other people get from family or a relationship or from prayer. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
As I do not live in an age when rustling black skirts billow about me, and I do not carry an ebony… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet. — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
You can watch an episode of Friends or an episode of Law & Order and just drop in, but you're not going… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a… — David Grann Copy Share Image
I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
USE COMMON SENSE. If somebody offers you a thousand dollars for this book, chances are their motives are not pure. Then again,… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
I grew up really being a comic book geek, and that was a really big part of my childhood. — Rob Van Dam Copy Share Image
So March: Book One was the first book I ever wrote. And it was the most terrifying process I've ever been through. — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think…Throughout the Mahabharata ... Krishna goads human beings into all… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in… — Andrew Wylie Copy Share Image
Those of us who think about what we eat, how it's grown, those of us who care about the environmental impact of… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
“If you have not touched the rocky wall of a canyon. If you have not heard a rushing river pound over cobblestones.… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only things I read are gossip columns. If I read three pages of a book, I'm out like a light. When… — Ethel Merman Copy Share Image
We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
