Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the… — Martin Lewis Perl Copy Share Image
Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller. — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
“Happiness and achieving our dreams is a matter of believing it is possible and having a positive frame of mind.” — The Letters Of Gratitude Copy Share Image
Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent,… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I write for people who aren't Christians. I write for non, new, and nominal Christians who are curious about the Bible and… — Stephen M. Miller Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Interestings,' I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before… — Barbara Mandrell Copy Share Image
Some people may contend that there is no image more charming that a child holding a puppy or kitten. But for me… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
When I studied with Nicholas Ray he was always telling us, "If you want to make films, watch a lot of films,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“I watched plays with the kind of voracity with which small children read books; with the same visceral passion, the same complete… — Deirdre Madden Copy Share Image
I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
“the Alexandrian man, who is basically a librarian and copy editor and goes miserably blind from the dust of books and printing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Whenever I start a book, I swear it's going to be a short one. But then it's, 'Who was his grandfather? And… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book - that's a fantasy - and I don't… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
I confess I didn't read the 'Green Arrow' comics before coming to play Shado. The comic books are not as easily accessible… — Celina Jade Copy Share Image
If somebody takes the time, a: to read a book that I have written, and then to b: care about it enough… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
I love making things, like software, and films, and laughter. And working with Gus Silber, to make the Funny Business book, has… — Ronnie Apteker Copy Share Image
When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time.… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
When my books came out, they started selling but they started selling at a relatively consistent but low pace. And they started… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. Oneness can only be promoted by the practice… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
