When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a… — William Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Just read one book a month and at the end of they year you would be totally different but an impressive personality.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books. — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
“If the reader needs a dictionary to read your book then the dictionary may turn out to be a more interesting read.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
“A humour of reading books, except those of devotion or housewifery, is apt to turn a woman's brain... All affectation of knowledge… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
You know that place between sleep and awake? The place where you still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you... Peter… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“He wondered what book he might be reading when he finally breathed his last, and determined to grab a good one as… — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
I have a low opinion of books; they are but piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds… — John Muir Copy Share Image
We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world.… — Alan Jay Lerner Copy Share Image
Linda asked that morning what it was about Charlotte’s Web that Ally particularly liked; maybe it would help to think about that,… — Meg Waite Clayton Copy Share Image
I remember I thought I should become a doctor, even though I had no talent for science whatsoever. Then of course, until… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“People who collect books, and categorize them by Roy G. Biv instead of alphabetically, are displaying the fact that their books aren't… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Publishing a book is like giving birth. You labor over it and then produce what you think is the most beautiful thing… — Jordan Silver Copy Share Image
“Not all books received as gifts are transformative, of course. Sometimes the only thing a book gives its reader is a paper… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
The Bible is actually a library of books-some long, some short- written over hundreds of years by many authors. Behind each one,… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
I think I have learnt more about business from fighting than anything else - from any book, from any, like - fighting… — Arvind Gupta Copy Share Image
The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
This is where you and I are headed… Look for us in history books and you'll find us in the margins. Look… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“There are some people in this world who can emotionally disconnect like a light switch. It’s like a mental defense mechanism.” — Vicki Perry Copy Share Image
In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the… — Richard Laymon Copy Share Image
So much work went into this book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"] - you can probably tell from looking at the… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
In general, I think, less is more, and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
In the book [Today Matters] I talk about successful people make important decisions early in their life, and then they manage those… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, when I put aside my career as an economist. I looked at every book, went to every… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
I’m reminded of a book my father used to read me,” she said. “A bunch of elves and things get into a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not allowed to buy advertising for my book '50 Things Liberals Love to Hate' on Facebook because, according to their representative,… — Mike Gallagher Copy Share Image
One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of math books: Those you cannot read beyond the first sentence, and those you cannot read beyond… — Chen-Ning Yang Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I reject the concept that comic books in movies are a genre. I have been fighting that for many years, with the… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
“There is much you can learn from books and scrolls. These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image