We shouldn't let the Republicans off the hook. Theodore Roosevelt, we learned from Jeff Cowan's new book, was just as bad as… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would… — Piero Scaruffi Copy Share Image
I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex. [Hawking adopted this statement from a remark made to him… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book. — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
“Let’s get it over and the door closed shut on it! Let’s close it like a book and go on reading! New… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“It only took Alexis a day to read a five-hundred page book. Fiction stories took her to another world where she could… — Lindsay Chamberlin Copy Share Image
Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The most obvious – and easiest! – way to gain perspective is to put your work away for a while. The truth… — Elizabeth Sims Copy Share Image
Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of… — Dean H. Kenyon Copy Share Image
I had been writing for the 'Late Show' for about four years when I started writing short stories. I had a blast… — Jill Davis Copy Share Image
A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
My parents were in the book business, my brothers still run the Dutton bookstores in Los Angeles, and I've been interested in… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
I was reading some complex books in my own youth-and no, I didnt always understand every word, let alone every concept-but I… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
The passion to condense from book to book Unbroken wisdom in a single look, Though we know well that when this fix… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I'd be a dope to compare my writing with Wallace Stegner's, but that book probably influenced me in ways I didn't even… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
There are so many ways in which we learn about life and the self. Each day opens paths to this exploration. For… — Ashley Bryan Copy Share Image
My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer: 'The Power of Intention,'… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
If you have time to chatter,Read books.If you have time to read,Walk into mountain, desert and ocean.If you have time to walk,Sing… — Nanao Sakaki Copy Share Image
“A book may be regarded as irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
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The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And,… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
I dreamt a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance On every line there was a new horizon… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
Research is a lifelong occupation so it's hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 months from start… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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