I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art. — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
I never read. I've never read one book... I just can't do it. Something's wrong with me. I have what they call… — Steve Jones Copy Share Image
My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book. — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
So in his very politically-incorrect way, I think [James Mattis] is a good counterpart to Donald Trump, who doesn't read books. — Peter R. Mansoor Copy Share Image
“But you don't know how to read anymore! When you open a book, you do it in the faith and assurances that… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
“I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.” — Daniel T. O'Hara Copy Share Image
about ten days ago I got started on a new book, and am completely, brazenly devoted to it: my hair is uncut,… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
There's almost a universe as big as the Marvel Universe with X-Men. I mean, Deadpool is something I think everybody was taken… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
How would you describe the spiritual aroma of your home? The source of this aroma is the relationship between husband and wife.… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone. — Gordon Bell Copy Share Image
Our young people will learn more about the cult of militarism in this short and accurate book by Joel Andreas than they… — Blase Bonpane Copy Share Image
There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've probably read maybe by now fifteen, twenty books on Matthew. I'd say the authors I like best are an English fellow… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The books are the books, and a lot of the stuff is some version of your id or your ego. — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book… — Deborah Lawrenson Copy Share Image
I've gone through all of it: I've literally heard every single name in the book be told to me. So don't be… — Manny MUA Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
My writing is of a very different kind from anything I've heard about. All this mythological material is out there, a big… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you? — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, the kids call me 'the book lady.' The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
When you're rereading or editing your book and you start to expect that this work is going to be reviewed, and you… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image
As a family, we are all very close, so we all know what we all are doing. Other than that, we don't… — Bobby Deol Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I’ll read a book and feel it was written just for me. Then I’ll flip the book over to look at… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image