I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things. — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched… — Moby Copy Share Image
In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to… — Darrell Hammond Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
When you're pregnant, you go out and buy every single book; you have this stack of books on your nightstand, but there… — Jenna McCarthy Copy Share Image
“A book is a map … There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I know not everyone starts out reading high literature. If you read enough you might be drawn to some other things, so… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
It's born of sheer laziness. My signature dishes are salads, hamburgers and popcorn. That's not the kind of stuff that gets you… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't… — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language… — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
Books gave us a way to shape ourselves - to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music.… — Emanuel Celler Copy Share Image
“What kind of girl reads Wealth of Nations for fun?” She closed the book and looked at the front jacket, then at… — Jill Barnett Copy Share Image
“Do you have any old copies of Dickens? Bookseller: We've got a copy of David Copperfield from 1850 for $150. Customer: Why… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
The Marvel universe is a deep, weird, woolly place, and getting to expose strange corners of it is part of the fun… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was very lucky to befriend many authors before even signing with an agent, and they were all so supportive of me… — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
“That's right I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called 'The Book of Mormon,' we… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground,… — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
“But how could she have forgotten who he was—a man who could lose himself in a single book, not to mention a… — Robert Masello Copy Share Image
Anyt hing that is found to stimulate hope should be seized upon and make to serve. This applies to a book, a… — Hubert Van Zeller Copy Share Image
The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We certainly have a lot of ideas, and we both love what Tony [Fucile] did with the book [Bink & Gollie]. If… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel… — Julien Green Copy Share Image