A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world. — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
A book very much is the center of the road, so people always can refer back to it. — Sakyong Mipham 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
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
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
Don't give up before you get off your feet. Put the time in to learn what you can, build relationships, and develop… — Heather Hart Copy Share Image
Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
I was born in Japan and raised in Japan, but those are the only things that make me Japanese, I've grown up… — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
My name became a brand and I'd love to say it was the plan from the start. But the only plan was… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I love his Word and I hope when readers discover how God communicates his love for them through each book of the… — Jennifer Rothschild Copy Share Image
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Time is a river...and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect that themes or subjects become identifiable.… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
So in that way, fame has become a weirder thing to go after, but the thing about me is I've never been… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
Peter Conners stunning prose poems are packed with keen sensitivity, dreaminess, and wit. I love his time travels, the vibrant layering of… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“I was astonished at how wonderful these books were; and even though I was occasionally discomforted when someone, having asked me what… — Jonathan Cott Copy Share Image
Do you like manga?" she asked after a minute. "Anime?" "Anime's cool. I'm not really into it, but 1 like Japanese movies,… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
The way that the stories go in the Snicket books is just the way stories naturally go to me. They're full of… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Sanity and enlightenment...I've been reading a new book Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries, and it contains a commentary on Genjo Koan by… — Brad Warner 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
“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
I have a book! It's called 'How Does She Do It?' and it's 35 years on camera. — Deidre Hall 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
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
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
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
