My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
In 2011, 'Yourself in the World,' a book of my writings and interviews, was published in conjunction with a retrospective of my… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
I read every book about Buster Keaton and Chaplin to see how they worked - it's all about dedication, tunnel vision, pursuit… — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
Exhaustively researched and beautifully written, Cronkite is a classic. Douglas Brinkley has written his best book yet. This is a fascinating story… — Debby Applegate Copy Share Image
No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the… — Xinran Copy Share Image
I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I sometimes think to myself, you're not going to meet a new friend of any kind at home in front of the… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling… — Chris Evans Copy Share Image
Comic book readers are just as abandoned by the corporate system as the creators, despite the importance supposedly given their hard-earned dollars.… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
For his major contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Parents...rigidly monitor the selection of television programs...and other forms of entertainment for your family. Foster in your homes a love of knowledge… — David B. Haight Copy Share Image
Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000 they hassled George W. Bush… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
My dream is that all South Africans from all walks of life will have the opportunity to read my books and use… — Jason Lee Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
“Add books to your circle of friends: they will enrich your life; take you places you’ve never been; give you perspective you… — J Tan Copy Share Image
My mom was there, in some form, in some sense, in some universe. My mom was still my mom, even if she… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
I have read countless comics books while listening to hip hop, and as a young one, I wasted countless hours practicing nunchuks… — Axel Alonso Copy Share Image
“A reader has recently described the Heresy novels as "Dan Brown meets Guy Ritchie" and "I am constantly telling people about the… — Alexander Ferrar Copy Share Image
The book deals with being an honorable person in a dishonest world. The Fencing Master does not sell himself. Thats his tragedy,… — Arturo Perez Reverte Copy Share Image
“A book is a vacation for the mind. My books will take you inside my mind, so feel free to make yourself… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
There must be every kind of books in your library. The most beautiful gardens are those with many different flowers, with all… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it… — Janna Malamud Smith Copy Share Image
I feel character description from a book can mislead you and actually make you fall off course when you're representing a character… — Will Poulter Copy Share Image
I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we… — Aime Cesaire Copy Share Image
The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Francis Bacon once remarked that “some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored.” — J.F Hermann Copy Share Image
Thousands of E.U. law instruments have come onto the U.K. statute book - all without the democratic legitimacy our constitutional traditions expect. — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
