'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap… — Timothy Dalton Copy Share Image
I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“So the beloved children's book author took a deep breath, opened his own book to the very first page, and began reading,… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I'd never written nonfiction about the war on drugs, but I know a tremendous amount about it: I taught a class on… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I mean when the book first came out it was not a bestseller, but it got good reviews and at that point… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
There are authors like David Foster Wallace or Raymond Chandler - with voice-based authors I might end up a completist, because what… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Someday I want to go back and maybe write another book on those seven sayings. I just think they are kind of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I know I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
You once said to me that I talk like a man in a book. I not only talk, but think and feel… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to… — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Although the point of blogging is that it doesn't pay, I often steal from my blog for paid publication. I've based several… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
I took that bible and I went home and I held it up and I said God, I really don't know you… — Paula White Copy Share Image
What I did in the book [Today Matters] is I tried to help a person make their day - every day -… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I'm going to use… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
I love to read. I'm still pen pals with my ninth-grade English teacher, Mr. Shanley. He tells me what books to read. — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
“The attentive reading of a book is really a continuous commentary, a succession of notes that emanate from the inner voice.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“If you read one book you are a clone. If you read two books you are confused. If you read ten books… — Tim Keller Copy Share Image
“La dernière chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la première. ( The last thing… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“If I read a book that impresses me, I have to pull myself together before I mingle with other people. Otherwise they… — Diana Mauer Copy Share Image
i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer) — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another? — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image