I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Anyone can write one book; for instance even politicians do it! Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps… — John Green Copy Share Image
'Marley Dias Gets It Done - And So Can You' is a book about how girls who are 10 and up -… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
“My nine-month journey through this room I would describe as one of trauma, rage and deceit, all topped off with a splash… — Vicki Perry Copy Share Image
When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Dispersal was a conscious strategy of the plunderers. Only by destroying these collections could they build up new ones. Many of these… — Anders Rydell Copy Share Image
I have always been delighted when told there was a piece of fanfic inspired by a book of mine floating about. I… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“I believe in brevity. I believe that you, the reader, entrust me, the writer, with your most valued commodity—your time. I shouldn’t… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed,… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I've been involved in activities with other people who were put in jail. We were protesting the closing of the prison farm… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Robert Scott Leyse channels Baudelaire's Queen of Spades and Jack of Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new book. He… — Kris Saknussemm Copy Share Image
Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what… — Michael Gerson Copy Share Image
There's a book called 'The Baron in the Trees.' A friend got that for me because I was kind of a tree-dwelling… — Borns Copy Share Image
As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I had devoted my whole life to books; to bookshops; to booksellers; to bookish people like Charles and Alan. And in doing… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writing about dogs, I… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
“the book is intended to show how it is possible to live in and be enlarged by loss, even as we continue… — Jerry Sittser Copy Share Image
Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears:… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love'… — Isaac Hanson Copy Share Image
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer) — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another? — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
In the early 1980s, I wrote a book called 'The Complete Guide to Financial Privacy.' If I would write that book today,… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“book (you are SO going to need a copy of this!) The Boat Owner’s Mechanical and Electrical Manual. This is the sea… — Rick Page Copy Share Image
Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
