“A book that I would recommend for everyone: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” — Skloot Copy Share Image
Books can lift our spirits, heal our wounds, steel our courage and strengthen our religious resolve. — Scott Cunningham Copy Share Image
A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives. — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?' — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM” — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
I hate requests. They make me feel unhappy. It's like when I take a book out of the library. As soon as… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me “a purveyor of insipid… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
All fliers have some concern about flying. Some handle it by 'flying' the plane. They're 'raising' the wheels, 'making' the turns and… — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded! — Erin Duffy Copy Share Image
I had begun to read books and things and, in fact, one of the persons who started me thinking seriously was an… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I only know two cats in this business that really had it all; Elvis was one of those guys, the other was… — Carl Perkins Copy Share Image
Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
The world is telling you through The New York Times and The New York Review of Books "You must shut up. You… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Justin Halpern tosses lightning bolts of laughter out of his pocket like he is shooting dice in a back alley. In one… — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. 'The Awful Aunty' took me 10 days. — Tony Ross Copy Share Image
If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you go to Germany and get drunk, at some point you will try to look up Hitler in the phone book. — Dave Attell Copy Share Image
“Chapters - Life has many different chapters for us. One bad chapter doesn’t mean the end of the book.” — Edenia Archuleta Copy Share Image
“A great book is a thing of mystery and beauty; it has the power to move you.” — Neil Leckman Copy Share Image
Everybody wants confidence but you don't find it in self help books. You find confidence in the Holy Spirit. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature. — Phillip Noyce Copy Share Image
“My book is awful,” I said. “Nonsense,” Dora J. Arod said. “Your book is nonsense.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Books crawl down from the shelves; Read themselves through you; Read themselves at you. - Library of Force ” — John Cale Copy Share Image
Most of the books call Her a He, but I am able to ascertain what is meant, despite that semantic error. — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won't necessarily protect it from disappearing. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
“this book really is interesting that a soon as I got it I couldn't stop reading it.” — Carolyn Hennesy Copy Share Image
