Sweetie, if you opened a book more times than you opened your legs,you might actually get somewhere in life. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Parents should leave books lying around marked ‘forbidden’ if they want their children to read. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The book is not completely written until someone else has read it. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I love the book legacy of lies it amazing and is fun to read over and over again — Elizabeth Chandler Copy Share Image
I love reading. I spend a huge amount of time travelling on planes and have always got a book on the go. — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
On the floor by my bed, there are heaps of books I want to read, books I have to read, and books… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Lit majors are not known for watching where they're going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Look through the prayer books. You'll see lots of dates. You'll see names of Native Americans remembered. This was an open-sourcing project… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The truth is that every book we read, like every person we meet, has the capacity to change our lives. And though… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office… I worked in… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“Books were seen as a waste of time. What was the point, unless you were reading for information? To lose oneself in… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
