I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
There's a lot of people that need these stories, and they can't come to my book, so I'm going to be the… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
What’s the deal with the hair?” Curran tore his gaze from the book and grimaced. “Grows every flare. Can’t help it." We… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in… — James McBride Copy Share Image
You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy.… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
As a state legislator, I had worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass a number of bills, including some related to higher… — Joaquin Castro Copy Share Image
When I go to buy a book, I always ask if it is right for me at this time, something I need… — Echo Bodine Copy Share Image
I believe in previous lives and the Muse—and that books and music exist before they are written and that they are propelled… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their graves they rise. Angels--that,… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Whenever I got any money, I invested it in books. When my savings dwindled, I got rid of everything else—pictures, furniture, china.… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
Writers like to feel sorry for themselves, which is easy to do in private, but when called on to feel sorry for… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
"Chocolate mustache" is from a line in the book. It's my favorite title (chosen by me), so I'm pleased that Never Spit… — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
“Friend, you were on my heart when I mapped out this book. You were made for more than the daily grind. More… — Emily Grabatin Copy Share Image
“If I accept that a book must end, I will finish it tonight. What I am doing now is to postpone this… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness. — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Joss's ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books… — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . . — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Too much of this book knowledge just leads to doubts and confusion. You get too many doubts asking 'what is this?' and… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I got this book called 'How to Write the Popular Song.' I read that and went through all the things they suggested,… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
“You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson. But sometimes it's difficult to… — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place–… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
A visit to a bookshop will be a difficult one if you're looking for any picture book in print that is more… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
It was a startling task to undertake, for the Book of Mormon had never been illustrated before, at least on any professional… — Arnold Friberg Copy Share Image
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