“Books are alive and, just like people, sometimes are welcome and sometimes shown the door and asked to come back later.” — Christopher Herz Copy Share Image
I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book… — Audrina Patridge Copy Share Image
Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its… — Kim Boykin Copy Share Image
“Rosemary, why do you love books so much?" (...) "Well, actually, I love books because books are my best friends.” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
My parents were only one part of my lineage. I also met a number of mentors, one of whom I nicknamed "Socrates"… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
No plasticity exists in the Quran. This book is believed by Muslims to be the verbatim words of God. How can you… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Your words are powerful so what you say goes a long way to either establish or destroy you; this is why you… — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the… — Gale Anne Hurd Copy Share Image
I skip the introduction. If the book goes in the trash, I want it to go because of my thoughts on it,… — James Frey Copy Share Image
“This book is for women trying to find their "right"place, when so much they have had faith in has let them down.” — D. Adiba Copy Share Image
You come to work because the office is a resource: The office is a place where you can meet with other people,… — Jay Chiat Copy Share Image
Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
There's a book called 'Where The Wild Things Are,' by American writer Maurice Sendak... it really is the most sublime book. It's… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that… — Rachel Gibson Copy Share Image
I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Not every child takes instantly to books like a duck to water, but I don’t believe there are children who hate books.… — Amanda Craig Copy Share Image
Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Everyone that enters through Him is secured and the person shall find pastures for himself. Jesus really cares!” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement,… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I read a lot of books about psychopaths. I read a wonderful book Amy Hempel gave me about the guy who created… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
