The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The only time I was ever approached to write a book was when I was most famous. — Justine Bateman Copy Share Image
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part.” — Jay Taylor Copy Share Image
One little word thats all it took, to change my life to a different book — Aly Johnson Copy Share Image
It doesnt matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“I do have an interest in this book, which is for sale. (If you have bought it, dear reader, I thank you.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Writing this book is not just me encouraging others to lean in. This is me leaning in. Writing this book is what… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important. — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
[My book is] a collection of letters and essays about what it takes to be a young woman today. Mostly the taboo… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
A terrific, stimulating book...Ramalingam clearly and engagingly shows how the use of complex adaptive systems thinking can significantly strengthen and enhance the… — Jerry Sabloff Copy Share Image
DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989… — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
The good thing about life is that you can research anywhere you are. I'm just constantly gathering little bits of information all… — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I read 'Game Change.' If you want to relive the campaign, that book is unbelievable. It's great. It's the book of that… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
I either wrote at the end of the night or sometimes in the morning. Sometimes they were full entries, or others I… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
Your image as a model is your currency. That's the only thing you've got. No one cares what you look like in… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
“I avoided my eyes while brushing my teeth, then climbed into bed with a copy of _The Blind Assassin_, because if you're… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“If you don't want to lose us," Montana says to the crowd, "stop trying to tell us how to think. It makes… — Christ Crutcher Copy Share Image
A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kids are not going to sit and read a slow-paced book. Neither are adults. — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I never really considered 'Quantum & Woody' a comedic book or a funny book. I never thought of it as a satire. — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“No tea cup is big enough nor book long enough for me to be satisfied.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If I had to pick, I'd say my favorite book is 'A Prayer For Owen Meany', by John Irving. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I learned to write from authors. I didn't know any, but I read their books. — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else. — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
Well in the comic book world, I think the Hulk is the strongest, but I think I'd give him a heck of… — Daniel Cudmore Copy Share Image
The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image