Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts. — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
“Nobody understood why opposites attracted, and anybody who said they did was probably selling a book.” — Lynn Blackmar Copy Share Image
Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Life is a book, you can't start a new chapter if you keep rereading the last. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was technological and black and thin and therefore Evil, but... it was also a book.” — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“When your only company are books and you know that you got the best company, your life becomes the infinite space between… — Luffina Lourduraj Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks I'm a smart arse who can solve any bloody problem. I'm not. I'm just a very old businessman and a… — John Harvey-Jones Copy Share Image
I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
As I point out in the very first pages of 'Into the Wild,' I approached this book not as a normal, you… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the age of sixty, to marry a beautiful girl of sixteen is to imitate those ignorant people who buy books to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people's… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
The fact that you see salarymen reading manga and pornography on the trains and being unafraid, unashamed or anything, is something you… — Hideaki Anno Copy Share Image
I've always been a mystery fan. My very first grown-up book, I distinctly remember going to the library and my mom helping… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I… — Maggie Shayne Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that authors of fantasy and science fiction novels are rarely asked if their books are based on their… — Malinda Lo Copy Share Image
Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image