Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I… — John Fante Copy Share Image
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
I learned that books could be collected, that they were important enough to keep and that a story that seemed to be… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
It's one thing to be a comic book fan, but when you have to create a character and put him in a… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
I've heard the joke a million times that "Jews in Sports" must be the thinnest book in the world. Actually, I've seen… — Dolph Schayes Copy Share Image
I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding… — Genevieve Gorder Copy Share Image
The Bible is not a book that you can open and say, 'Now, Lord, put some magic into my soul that will… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
Why did I like simpler songs? Just times change. This is one of the repeated things I hear: even though people will… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something… — Charles Adams Copy Share Image
What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge,… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
You know what's fun? You pick somebody at random, like out of the phone book, and send them about 100 'Just Because'… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
When you have five little kids, you're not going to open Mindy Kaling's latest book. You're playing with your kids. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless! And they stay in the desert! Jackals piss… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's fun to see someone grow as a writer, moving from their first workshopped poems to publishing their earliest poems to having… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
“I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to… — David Shields Copy Share Image
As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to people even if you (or they)… — Joe Vitale Copy Share Image
There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was this billy goat at a movie studio who found and ate a can of film. When a nanny asked him… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that… — Lisi Harrison Copy Share Image
“On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused… — Nafisa Joseph Copy Share Image
But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
When I'm assembling a book I concentrate as though I were writing a poem. A truly imagined arrangement will indicate gaps and… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
“No persons or events mentioned in this book should be confused with real persons or events. Reality is far too strange for… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film… — Kate Cary Copy Share Image
