For me, I was in school and I pushed myself to be a good student, just because that's the type of person… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
The old stage coach was rumbling along the dusty road that runs from Maplewood to Riverboro. The day was as warm as… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
The dumbest childhood vow I ever made was to finish every book I started. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill a Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there… — Martial Copy Share Image
To escape the power of the unknown, to prove to yourself that you don't believe in it, you accept its spells. Like… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most superficial fact regarding the 'Discourses,' the fact that the number of its chapters equals the number of books of Livy's… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
The next time you download a book on Kindle, buy a Michael Moore screed at Barnes & Noble, or order up a… — Bradley A. Smith Copy Share Image
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I wrote books to entertain. I'm not trying to teach anything! If I suspected the author was trying to show me how… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
What was the question? ...Oh. Where do I get my crazy ideas? Answer: sleep-fairy, walk-fairy, shower-fairy. Book-fairy. And in these last few… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
What made Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein such creative geniuses? It wasn't reading books or watching YouTube talks about… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
I'm the world's worst at reading reviews and then pretending I've read the book. — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
I didn't want to just write a series - I wanted to write an epic, on story that spans three books, where… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I finished a big book the other day. 421 pages. That's a lot of coloring when you think about it. — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
John Bunyan, author of the classic book the Pilgrim’s Progress, said “You have not lived today until you have done something for… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I could write an entirely new book about Andy Warhol, but I don't think I will. I certainly don't think Nancy Reagan… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make… — John Howe Copy Share Image
I would model well-being by presenting myself as a high-energy person who loves what I am doing and who is thrilled to… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“A library is many things. It’s a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It’s a place to go… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right… — John Green Copy Share Image
But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
Any time you read a book and get attached to the characters, to me it's always a shock when it goes from… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I confess I didn't read the 'Green Arrow' comics before coming to play Shado. The comic books are not as easily accessible… — Celina Jade Copy Share Image
I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
When a person really desire something, the whole universe help that person to realize hi dream. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Romantics. This book does contain some romantic ideas, and romantic situations that are of the heart, nothing that is in anyway X… — Kevin Moccia Copy Share Image
I think you can learn a lot from primary sources. 'The Penguin Book of Witches,' which is edited by novelist Katherine Howe,… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
As we breathe and live, have a conversation, and you look in someone's eyes, and you see a sunset or have an… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
