“There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
When I grew up, my house contained only two books: the Bible and the 'Edmonds' cookbook. We were a working-class household. Books… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You want to publish with a publisher because a publisher knows how to publish a book. And you don't. You really don't. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire… — Betsy Byars Copy Share Image
In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved. — Willis Lamb Copy Share Image
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Because I'm a "strong person," the symptoms hit me by surprise. It was, as I write in the book, stinging in my… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Sam loved to listen to music and make his own songs, to wear soft velvets, to play in the castle kitchen beside… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To write and speak correctly is certainly necessary; but it is not sufficient. A derivation correctly presented in the book or on… — George Polya Copy Share Image
It is both revealing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Those tragic comedians, the Chamber of Commerce red hunters, the Women's Christian Temperance Union smellers, the censors of books, the Klan regulators,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
People always think that happiness is a faraway thing," thought Francie, "something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
In the books by Ruy-Sanchez we find again the erotic conviction that allows us to read with all the skin. The erotic,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp,… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Christianity is based on a book. It centers in a Person. It expresses itself in a message. It authenticates itself in an… — J. Sidlow Baxter Copy Share Image
Frazzled and delirious, as I've just finished a new book of stories. I feel like Moses staggering down the mountainside with the… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
Failure Is A Single Paper In A Part Of Life. But Success Is A Book Of Your Own Biography.. Don't Loose A… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
I don't tweet, Twitter, email, Facebook, look book, no kind of book. I have a land line phone at my home -… — Patti LaBelle Copy Share Image
I read the book and I think, "Well, this is the movie we're going to make," and then someone else reads it,… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
The world has always been like a comic book world to me! What's happened is that communications got better and better, so… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
“—I really prefer books. No matter how bad a book is, it's unique, but people are all so ordinary. —I think we… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of 'laws' to what is found written on the statute… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
“You can read the book, you can wear the shirt, you can even shout the slogans, but unless you know ALL the… — Vivian Banks Copy Share Image
Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have… — Paula Danziger Copy Share Image
I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Home has always been wherever I am. I'm not very attached to walls - or people, for that matter - so I've… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material. — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you;… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share Image
“All my life I've wanted to tell people I love them. Fear usually held me back, that they wouldn't care, or they… — Patricia Gaffney Copy Share Image
In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look… — Percy Lubbock Copy Share Image
I Was Taught To Act My Shoe Size Never My Age. I Always Judge A Book By The Cover, Never The Page.… — Sugar Babe Copy Share Image
Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
It's cool to see wrestling fans that are also comic book creators sort of put their fandom on the page, and then… — Christopher Daniels Copy Share Image
One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image