At 31, I decided to learn how to read and, at 32, read my first book: Lee Iacocca's autobiography. Ten years later,… — Diamond Dallas Page Copy Share Image
If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Teacher: Where is your book? Student: At home. Teacher: What's it doing there? Student: Having more fun than me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book. — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
... judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart ... — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think? — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The rhyme always knows better than you, and leads you to places where you wouldn't otherwise have gotten to and that is… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
By about the sixth romance I knew I wasn't in exactly the right place. I liked writing action. And I wanted to… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
I think that once you're able to sort of get in line with who and how you relate to the world, you'll… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“There is a simple rule: practice a kind of generous selfishness. Give a book to a friend, but don't lend it, because… — Leah Price Copy Share Image
In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
Book is a half of a clapping hand and the reader is the other half of it. :)) — Reader's Digest Copy Share Image
When I wrote the book, I thought that I was the hero of my story. And in writing it, I came to… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Print will never die. There's no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning pages, and being able… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you read a book, and it's really, really beautiful, you're so engaged you forget to breathe. If you're in a car… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
'The Handmaid's Tale' is not a book or show advocating enslaving women or creating a theocracy. It's not glorifying that. It's talking… — Laeta Kalogridis Copy Share Image
I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE” — Charleston Parker Copy Share Image
There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
I cranked out a book. I didn't expect it to do much, but it's sold 80,000 copies. — Anh Do Copy Share Image
I was born in England and brought up in London. When I was 18 I read a book and came across the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
I am thrilled when I read about fans using my stories as springboards to read about either the historical characters or the… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people. — Manuel Rivas Copy Share Image
It may be true too that I would not have encountered the most important books and art and ideas of my life… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Laplace:… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
