Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the… — Nas Copy Share Image
I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps. — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
“I know no greater bore than the man who insists on lending you a book which you do not intend to read.” — Harold Rabinowitz Copy Share Image
A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
There's a new children's book that's coming out that features Sarah Palin as a hero. I don't want to give away the… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A lot of people who saw 'The Avengers' didn't read comic books, don't like comic book movies, and enjoyed it. That was… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“Without a doubt, I must read, all the books I've read about. See the artworks hung on hooks, that I have only,… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Laplace:… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about YA books - I don't know about Percy Jackson, but I do know about 'Twilight' and… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
The Sketchnote Handbook is neither about sketching nor is it about note taking. It's about receiving and processing the world in a… — Stefan G. Bucher Copy Share Image
A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
As a grad student and later as a writer, I have found it hard to sustain the pure, almost erotic love of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
BTW A 24 week old embryo is not a human being. You're not a human being until you're in my phone book. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me! — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Where you read a book and when and with whom can make a big difference.” — Robert Coles Copy Share Image
I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Gutenberg, your printing press has been violated by this evil book, Mein Kampf! — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
“What are you reading, my dear? A pretty sight, a lady with a book.” — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture. — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land, as the sower sows his wheat-field. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities. — Karl G. Maeser Copy Share Image
Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, it's that they honor working people. — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
