When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Man, Books & Booze is cool, right?. That's the most fun I've had in an interview this year. Definitely the most singing… — Jeremy Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
When I start a book, it's every day. There is no Saturday, no Sunday. It's every day, because if I stop one… — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Copy Share Image
At what price do we get our news? The role of economics in defining the nature of contemporary journalism has never been… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries.… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a… — David Grann Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that people often seem to believe that authors of realistic fiction are directly translating their personal experiences into… — Malinda Lo Copy Share Image
It really makes little difference in the long run whether The Book of the Law was dictated to [Crowley] by preterhuman intelligence… — Israel Regardie Copy Share Image
It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
I'm excited for everybody to see the books. In Justice League #15, there's a lot of other stuff too that's setup in… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
I could stay depressed about my bad memory, but that's a negative way to live. Let's look on the bright side and… — Hirohiko Araki Copy Share Image
More wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of the ocean. Blue, green,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I… — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's… — David Ortiz Copy Share Image
I don't think I'll write a large novel again because it was like being in jail for me. Even though that's the… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
As you'll know yourself, there are these moments when you're writing a book when one remark or moment will pull everything together… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I grew up in the seaside town of Porthcawl in South Wales, the third eldest of four children. We weren't overly bookworm-ish… — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
“Every time that you read a book, it is like depositing money in the bank. You spend every weekend reading a pile… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
Books are like blankets, the mere sight of them around the house provides warmth and comfort. They are like mirrors, too, reflecting… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
One day I'm going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There… — Don Novello Copy Share Image
“You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again, and the joy… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
I remember, even in college, reading Cliffs Notes about a book and thinking to myself, 'Geez, that sounds like a good book.… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
“Walk with me now into this very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is… — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
I think a successful adaptation rises or falls on the work presented. If people need to read the book to understand the… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read. — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
“Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading.” — A.N.L. Munby Copy Share Image