Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know? — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
I have a book! It's called 'How Does She Do It?' and it's 35 years on camera. — Deidre Hall Copy Share Image
I'm a thirty-something gay man with a dodgy heart. I sell books for a living. Who wants to read about that? — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are only two kinds of books worth keeping: Valuable books and valuable books. The first value is monetary, and the second… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
In my book Radical Reform I made it clear that we cannot talk about the environment or ecology if we don't also… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
In every John Waters book, you're like: 'Wait, how can this guy be so funny in a... book?' It's like you can… — Sarah Sherman Copy Share Image
So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“Ladies, get confident bout yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man… — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed” starts Orhan Pamuk to his famous and brilliantly written book:… — Samad Beh-Rang Copy Share Image
“The room was lit with small reading lamps and there were books everywhere: piled on the coffee table, under the coffee table,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
I think the gift of my mother's death, if anything so terrible can be said to have an upside to it, is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Part of why I wrote my book was so that we could focus on the structural and systemic reasons behind social misery.… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
“All of a sudden his books, which had hitherto been merely a fond decoration and a means of letting his mind free… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
Does people not asking me about Asian American literature mean they don't see it as its own literary tradition? I certainly believe… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book. — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Something’s wrong in the air, you know, when a book costs less than a bullet. Or a Coke. Values-wise.” — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
The best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground. — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it! — Ruth Gordon Copy Share Image
I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The truth is, when I'm immersed in a book I'm less aware of the pain in my unpredictable arms and legs.” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I was reading all these books, including the Bible - and I'm an atheist. — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. — James Boswell Copy Share Image