I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“We cannot prevail by our own might or strength, we need to plug on to the source of our strength so that… — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book. — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
One of the greatest virtues of gardening is this perpetual renewal of youth and spring, of promise of flower and fruit that… — Edward Augustus Bowles Copy Share Image
I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In my darkest night, when the moon was covered and I roamed through wreckage, a nimbus-clouded voice directed me: "Live in the… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book about Hemingway's Paris, but a professor beat me to it. I suddenly realized other people were… — Jack Hemingway Copy Share Image
Very often, or perhaps more often, and even in very good collections - even in some of the best collections ever written,… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
The issue of the American justice system is so much broader than any one party, or any area of the country, or… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
“I looked up at the shelf that held my books. I had dozens now. Faithful friends who took me on journeys without… — Kaje Harper Copy Share Image
Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good.… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think… — David Carradine Copy Share Image
Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I like the 'Cirque du Freak' books - 'Tunnel of Blood' by Darren Shan. They're set in England. It's about vampires. — Jamie Waylett Copy Share Image
I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own. — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.' She pointed to the shelf opposite. 'Over there… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I thought if I was open and honest, it would help the reader to get open and honest, and they also would… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
See what I do is I book a studio that's closed down and I go by myself. No one's in there, literally… — Lil Durk Copy Share Image
As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I read a lot of comics growing up. My mom used to say, 'Would you please read a book?' She was worried… — Erica Durance Copy Share Image
No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“If you were at school they would not let you read a book like this, they would keep you from reading it… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image