I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their… — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“God doesn’t promise us escape from suffering or pain. Rather, He promises to miraculously use even bad situations for your ultimate good.” — Jim George Copy Share Image
As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
It was unimaginable what happens to you when you get known for a book that everybody reads, or that everybody has heard… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas. — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
We are raising a generation on the spiritual junk food of religious videos, movies, youth entertainment, and comic book paraphrases of the… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
“If a writer manages to be fascinating about his own novels, then there are only two possibilities: either he is merely voicing… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
As a teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions. I… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
In a New York Post interview, Judy Blume, author of young-adult fiction, gave this advice on getting your kids to read: "Moms… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me sane during… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the blank pages of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
“She has just written a book too; bizarre sort of thing called the ‘Rent Veil’ or the ‘Torn Scarf’ or something like… — Rebecca N. Porter Copy Share Image
My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My ideal is a book that is perfect on every page, that gives you tremendous aesthetic joy on every page. I suppose… — James Salter Copy Share Image
We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books that are said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration,… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
Forget about every other lesson in the book. You have to be able to tap your foot or else none of what… — Al Di Meola Copy Share Image
It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these… — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson. — Frank-Walter Steinmeier Copy Share Image
A cashmere knit is like a book. It is something to save and go back to time after time. It is the… — Brunello Cucinelli Copy Share Image
“Wait. Is this book about aliens?” She snatched it back from me. “Yes.” “Really?” “But they’re hot aliens.” She tapped on the… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
Some people don't like my fiction, because they prefer the nonfiction. But moving around keeps the work fresh for me and, hopefully,… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I was learning how people were with one another, how they acted and reacted and interacted, what they said and how they… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I love 'The Stand;' I read it when I was a kid - it was one of my favorite books when I… — David Yates Copy Share Image
I write at all different times. I write in my bed, I write at the table. I need to get it together.… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“A good book is like really loved item at a really good restaurant, every time you go there you order it to… — K.A Cameron Copy Share Image
When it comes to books...They're like lifelong friends to me; I need to know they're there, even if I don't check in… — Vendela Vida Copy Share Image
If the fidelity [ in a book] isn't maintained, the reader will think your structure is extraneous, or superficial, or that you're… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
I haven't read a book in my life. I haven't got enough time. I prefer to listen to music, although I do… — Victoria Beckham Copy Share Image
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