My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books. — Dan DeCarlo Copy Share Image
The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly — Jen Knox Copy Share Image
Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done. — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Herman Cain was unaware that China is a nuclear power. And I said to myself, 'Hey, Herman, how about making an unwanted… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
“It may sometimes happen that a truth, an insight, which you have slowly and laboriously puzzled out by thinking for yourself could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
"Girly" can be limiting if you're told it's the only option. I don't think the solution is to get rid of the… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
I suppose that literature as it is won't die, science fiction included. But games are becoming an extremely important part of the… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
(T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Comic books themselves are getting more literate. And there are people who are screenwriters and television writers and novelists who are writing… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Speed is not an indicator of quality in terms of fiction. That's true of one's relative slowness or swiftness - taking 10… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
One of the scandalous things I did was as I read them afterward I would burn them. I loved them, but for… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The graphic novel is a great form that can be used to marry the book format with the movie. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“Books inspire us to dream, and then if we let them they will help us to achieve that dream!” — Carmela Dutra Copy Share Image
Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Respect the past, and prepare for the future by taking action in the present.” — The Letters Of Gratitude Copy Share Image
What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things. — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book! — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“The choice is yours. Don't let your pronouncements destroy your destiny rather let them build your future up!” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When people come up to me and say, 'I read your book,' I'm thinking, 'How dare you! Who gave you a copy?' — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
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