'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
David Sedaris wrote in one of his books that people like to make children into little grown-ups, which to him is about… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander. — Alphonse Daudet Copy Share Image
Every year, I give my dad an advance copy of my latest book. He reads it over the next several nights and… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“This book is dedicated to all the people who get up and do something about it, whatever “it” is and however small… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
Spring had come. Despite the many wet and gusty days which April had thrust in rude challenge upon reluctant May, in the… — Ralph Connor Copy Share Image
When I was little, my older brother, Gary, was forced to read a book a week in fourth grade. The books he… — Keith Hernandez Copy Share Image
Conspiracies fascinate me. When I visited the Rozabal shrine in Srinagar before writing my first book, I remember thinking that the person… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare… — Francesca Annis Copy Share Image
New Self, New World is an extraordinary work—an awesome display of wisdom distilled from the world’s great wisdom traditions and the majestic… — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet:… — Marianne Boruch Copy Share Image
In his book Stand Ye In Holy Places, President Harold B. Lee wrote that one is converted when his eyes see what… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The Book of Mormon is the "keystone" of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the capstone, with continuing latter-day revelation. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. It’s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there,… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Like books, the Internet has saved my life. It helped me recognize that so many people I adore suffer from the same… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Being a man of faith, what was so interesting to me was the subject, which started, by the way, with Anne Rice's… — John Debney Copy Share Image
Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain… — James Franco Copy Share Image
It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book...from the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Books are our windows on the world. They permit us to safely experience other lives and ways of thinking and feeling. Books… — Harry Mazer Copy Share Image
I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
If a man’s house is full of medicine bottles, we infer the man is an invalid. But if his house is full… — Vinoba Bhave Copy Share Image
I'm done. I'm going to go to bed and read important books about theater." "It would would be easier if you just… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes. I fit into the last category.… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I'm very much afraid that… — Hafez Copy Share Image
I do believe, especially with the character of Batman, that the tone and the mood of the book is 80% of the… — David Finch Copy Share Image
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