The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. . . . I think a lot of people who hate literature… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the 'capstone,' with continuing latter day… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Actually, I'm reading a lot of my scripts. When I'm working on something, it's hard to find time. You're always prepping new… — Justin Theroux Copy Share Image
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
Life is like a book. Some chapters are sad, some happy and some very exciting. But if you never turn the page,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dishonest, which is Hillary Clinton in the eyes of the American people, beats crazy. Dishonest loses to normal. So, let's just pick… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
At the time, I was reading this Miles Davis book, and he was talking about coming to New York right after he… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I think anyone who's not as good a writer as me is absolutely a hack, and I think anybody who's a slightly… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
Alexis Coe rescues a buried but extraordinarily telling episode from the 1890s that resonates in all sorts of ways with today. That… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends;;they are the most accessable and wisest of counselore, and the most patient teachers.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my… — Nigel Dennis Copy Share Image
“The things you're looking for...are in the world, but the only way the average chap will see ninety-nine percent of them is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the Pixar movies, and Ed Catmull, who wrote a book about his experiences producing them, talks about… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Matter of fact, I watch tons of tube, but I also read tons of books so I can figure out what's true… — Rodman Philbrick Copy Share Image
Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
It seems to be the way I get jobs - I book a holiday, I get to the other side of the… — Margot Robbie Copy Share Image
If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
The first comic I read was a Spider-Man comic, and my introduction to it was through my family. My cousins are a… — Joivan Wade Copy Share Image
The thing that I prefer, when I'm working on a book, is to do a seven-day week, because it's easy to lose… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for… — Jesse James Garrett Copy Share Image
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm asked to autograph a copy of 'Nudge,' the book I wrote with Cass Sunstein, the Harvard law professor, I sign… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
After writing 'The Omnivore's Dilemma,' I wanted to write a book that got past the choir, that got to people who didn't… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward,… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what… — Jimmy Carl Black Copy Share Image
There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
“My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
