A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.) — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Do not waste your time on light, weak, milktoast ministries and books — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“But more importantly in my book of life, it's what you can't buy with money that is often more important than what… — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
In my new book, 'Birth,' my goal is to share the path I have traveled in the spiritual sphere and in the… — Shari Arison Copy Share Image
Half of my mum's family is Welsh. I remember when I was a kid she used to read to me, and witches… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There were days when I was on the last $10 in my account, and I was freaking out about paying rent or… — Colin Egglesfield Copy Share Image
“The roadmap is right in front of you, and your suck can finally be behind you if you execute the plans developed… — Nate Green Copy Share Image
I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley… — Erica Tazel Copy Share Image
“October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or shutting a book, did not end… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“from What to Read by Mickey Pearlman - A book for book clubs From chapter -- "How to Read": Rule 1: BAN… — Mickey Pearlman Copy Share Image
According to a new book coming out by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, apparently when he was in high school, President Obama smoked… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Many years ago, in the late '70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I won’t lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of make your heart stop.… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books. — Morris Chestnut Copy Share Image
We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it. — Nicholas Lea Copy Share Image
Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad. — Kaley Cuoco Copy Share Image
The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
“Every stage of life is a chapter of a book. You must begin writing your life book.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction. — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two. — George Burns Copy Share Image
When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock. — Gail Tsukiyama Copy Share Image
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession. — John Bright Copy Share Image