Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is imperative for our mental health that we surround ourselves with like minded people.” — The Letters Of Gratitude Copy Share Image
You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending. — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books. — Jackie French Copy Share Image
'Pnin' by Vladimir Nabokov, which is a literally small book, fit right in my common law book. I would sit in class… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“I like a lot of talk in a book and I don't like to have nobody tell me what the guy that's… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“It's true that this is not a book you stick on a shelf. This is a story you will instead always carry… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
One day I gave Clifford a bath. And I combed his hair and took hom to the dog show. I'd like to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms has signed a deal with Random House to write his memoirs. Scholars will no doubt benefit from… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
I don't understand the feeling of, the way people speak of writing as though it were, like, some kind of djinn to… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I never really set out to research any of these stories. I try to lead an interesting life though. I guess the… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
Every religion oppresses women. I talk about the Koran because I know this book best. It allows for torture and other mistreatment,… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right… — John Green Copy Share Image
What I really try to do is take different pages out of different players books. — Chris Paul Copy Share Image
When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. — Dimebag Darrell Copy Share Image
The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Since when did you start plucking books off the children's shelf, Leona?” — Elizabeth Lynn Casey Copy Share Image
“You can’t give what you don’t have. To write, you must read. To write well, read well.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
“But there is much that cannot go into books, and that is the loss with which I become increasingly concerned.” — John Williams Copy Share Image
No CEO examining books today understands what the hell is going on. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
For my 'Perfect Chemistry' series, I did movie-style book trailers, and my fans went crazy for them. — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
