If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“This is a book which I would recommend to anyone who is walking through the pain of abuse. A book of courage… — Ruth Hawkey Copy Share Image
For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
By no means did my first book sell. I took a few runs at it. You'll never see those early efforts 'cause… — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
“Life is a book that someone else is reading—and you, a key character—hence the need for continual conflict and resolution. We can't… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
“Jaimie loved the dictionary even more than the television because it is the one book that contains all others.” — Robert Chazz Chute Copy Share Image
“Reading without thinking is nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I’m an atheist. The good news about atheists is that we have no mandate to convert anyone. So you’ll never find me… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
I write different kinds of sentences, depending on what the book is, and what the project is. I see my work evolving.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of… — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
You hope that people read your book and say "Yes, this is the way it is or could be." But then you… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
There can be no be no better instruction... than that every man who is to deal with his neighbor to follow these… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
We are great mysteries. No matter what we imagine we may know, even for all the facts we might gather, we don't… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
When I was 18, I borrowed my parents' car, and they are super supportive. They might give us snacks for the road,… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
I got addicted to the addiction book. I actually started developing all the addictions of the people in the book that I… — Susan Shapiro Copy Share Image
If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
I like the brighter, shinier, happier comic-book material on a personal level, but I also think the best stories are told where… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
I discover methods for myself and then read books that describe 'my' method. This leads me to believe that the creative well… — Gene Black Copy Share Image
A key to McMaster's thinking is his 1997 book, 'Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“The book identifies you as part of the tribe. On the opposite extreme, there are people who will walk up to you… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
If I were to write a book about my life, I swear it would be the best-selling book for the longest time.… — Monica Copy Share Image
“Nonsense! I have merely come to terms with the fact that I am perfect, and I have decided life must go on,… — C.N. Faust Copy Share Image
This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There must be many books, many lovely pines, to shield from hungry eyes the book that really matters, the wretched cave of… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
I always thought 'Of Mice and Men' was such a perfect book because there's nothing not to understand, but it's still really… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seed for more fruit. It is not a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I definitely have favorite books by favorite poets, but poets' books also vary. I could like some books, but not like another… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
Basically, I'm an EC comic book guy, man. You can show me anything that's high-spirited horror, and I'll be there giggling. — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So… — Don Novello Copy Share Image
