O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Part of my impetus to get famous is to have access to printed matter. I love all the stuff like postcards, books,… — Jack Pierson Copy Share Image
I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can… — Arnold Toynbee Copy Share Image
“The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It was not until I began to write a book called 'Light Years' that an editor really stepped in. The editor was… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Nerd herd, focus. You're here to help the fledglings. Dour One and Dour Two aren't important," said Aphrodite. "Dr. Seuss reference. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Think of the centre of interest in a painting as you would read it in a novel or see it in a… — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I still like paper books. Like, book is a flammable object. After you read it, you could use it to get warm.… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Publication is rather like pushing the boat out; then the boat/book turns into a melting ice floe and you have to conjure… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in… — Carice van Houten Copy Share Image
The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
We all take Mother's Day seriously and then it's like a month later, a bunch of kids get together and say, "I… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
From an early age I loved horror movies. I read books about horror, cops, firemen and military. Over the course of the… — Ralph Sarchie Copy Share Image
While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure. — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
It's like people believe all you need to do is like the same bands in order to be soulmates. Or book. Oh… — John Green Copy Share Image
What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm partial to a Muji recycled-paper sketch book and a Sharpie ultrafine marker. — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A state rep in Oklahoma gave a horrific speech where she felt the homosexual agenda was a greater threat to America than… — Leslie Jordan Copy Share Image
Now that I think about it, I was arrested in 1992. Some people may think of that as a bad thing, but… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It is rare and very inspiring that a head of state would make such an investment of time to write a book… — Keiko Fukuda Copy Share Image
I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry,… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
The book came after the fall of the Taliban, it says something about Afghan family life. Those kind of stories - what… — Asne Seierstad Copy Share Image
To what level does your patriarchal blessing reach in your life? Can you recollect the time you received it and recover any… — Truman G. Madsen Copy Share Image
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
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