The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself. — Henry James Copy Share Image
I don't want to write books that are intellectually staggering if nobody's going to read them. — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
Don't overpack your carry-on. You're never going to read that second book or that fourth magazine. — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
“To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books.” — Leona Rostenberg Copy Share Image
The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight. — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me. — Oliver Jeffers Copy Share Image
If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love… — Morris West Copy Share Image
Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead of going on the… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was also an Action Comic fan when I was a young kid and those comic books affected me and Superman is… — Charles Roven Copy Share Image
As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, 'those who cannot remember the past . . . should simply read Jan… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
“I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that… — Leah Price Copy Share Image
I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy… — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort… — Barbara Rosenblat Copy Share Image
How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Gary Berntsen, head of the CIA in Afghanistan there, he was a field commander. And he has a book out called "Jawbreaker."… — Alan Colmes Copy Share Image
Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“All I’ve done is give you a book,” she said. “You have to have the courage to learn what’s inside it.” — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs. — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
You do not have to protect people's pocket books. They'll do a better job of that than you will. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
“It's in books that most of us learn how splendidly worth-while life is.” — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm on a book tour, one of the questions I always get asked is what to wear to various occasions. — Nina Garcia Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is in books,... quote by me Halina Lagarde . Dan Brown is an inspiration to a book I am writing.” — Halina Lagarde Copy Share Image
A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
The reason I have LGBT fans is because I'm an open book; they're attracted to that. — Cupcakke Copy Share Image
The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.” — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
