Over the years, whenever I've felt that little twinkle in the hairs on the back of my neck., as I encountered an… — Arnold Gingrich Copy Share Image
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
The problem is too often they are boring, and boring in a meeting happens for the same reason as in a book… — Patrick Lencioni Copy Share Image
When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, when it came out in 1995, 'Infinite Jest' became a cultural event. It was the massive book that was… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone :… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I am an open book. It would be best if you only read my pages. Be careful when reading between the lines… — Jeffrey G. Duarte Copy Share Image
Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before… — Thomas George Bonney Copy Share Image
There are some people that say I need to be more academic in my teaching, I need to be more disciple developing… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
As an actor, you're constantly searching for that great character. Also, being a history buff and learning about people in our past… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“[…]when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
And through meditation comes wisdom - not through studying books, not through scriptures. Through scriptures one can become knowledgeable but no wise.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I carried [Rudy] softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder [at comforting]. I watched the contents of his… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose -- electronic or printed or audio -- is the grandest entertainment, and… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“We live and breathe words. (...) It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Battling the noise is creating a space for God and acknowledging the space He occupies, which is all of it. Invite God… — Eric Samuel Timm Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I was 13 and my mom was a librarian so I told her to check out every music book she could possibly… — Juicy J Copy Share Image
There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I want to play the Green Lantern. I'd love to do a comic book hero. Go to the gym, get all buff,… — Matthew Settle Copy Share Image
The Bible may be more than an ordinary human book but it's not less, and the same principles therefore apply in interpreting… — Craig Blomberg Copy Share Image
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The process is different for every book, but there are similarities. I always draw from the inside out. I don't plot them… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I could write a book describing what differentiates the high performance person from all the rest! Hell, I could write volumes! — Dan Pena Copy Share Image
Joseph [Millar] is much more disciplined than I am. He's up every morning meditating, then he writes, and he reads throughout the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Never mix books and bed. In the spectrum of excitement, sex & thought were on opposite ends. Both to be enjoyed, but… — Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason Copy Share Image
“Goodreads helps quite a few people that love to giveaway their books. I donate some of the books that I get from… — William Manchee Copy Share Image
Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
![“[…]when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create. It's in reading that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million…” quote by Mohsin Hamid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3d/mohsin-hamid-798_book_when-you-read-a-book-what-you-see-are-bl_397757.jpg)
![“I carried [Rudy] softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder [at comforting]. I watched the contents of his soul for a moment and saw a black-painted boy calling the name Jesse Owens as he ran through an imaginary tape. I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book…” quote by Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/730/markus-zusak-165_bed_i-carried-rudy-softly-through-the-broken_1898772.png)
![“Joseph [Millar] is much more disciplined than I am. He's up every morning meditating, then he writes, and he reads throughout the day. He probably reads ten books to my two and writes twice as much as I do.” quote by Dorianne Laux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c20/dorianne-laux-12252_book_joseph-millar-is-much-more-disciplined-t_1704578.jpg)
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