I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
“When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of papers and ink and glue - you sell… — Christopher Morlay Copy Share Image
It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Dont judge me by how I look but by who I am...dont judge a book by its cover because you never know… — Tamara Bean Copy Share Image
The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
I embellished many details about my past experiences, and altered others in order to serve what I felt was the greater purpose… — James Frey Copy Share Image
The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and… — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Guevara, here's our next Fidel Castro,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Great women scholars like Jane Harrison and Gisela Richter were produced by the intellectual discipline of the masculine classical tradition, not the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Anyone who fears, as I do, that today's public schools are dangerously close to being irrelevant must read this book. The authors… — John Merrow Copy Share Image
Prayer is always acceptable to God when dictated by the heart, for the intention is everything in his sight; and the prayer… — Allan Kardec Copy Share Image
My first book, 'To Be or Not To Be,' took 'Hamlet' and converted it to the choose-your-own-path format. It was a great… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
My all-time favourite children's book is 'Green Eggs and Ham' by Dr Seuss. Even as an adult I still appreciate it -… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
I should like to freeze in time all those I do love, keep them somehow safe from the ravages of the passing… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
I tell people that life is like a book. Sometimes you've just got to turn the chapter. Even if you don't understand… — Danny Gokey Copy Share Image
They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds. I put… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me. — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
There are things I'll never talk about for sure. My life is an open book, but there's always a few secret pages… — Jessica Mulroney Copy Share Image
I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
I think a good book is one you can lose yourself in and find yourself in, and that's what I did with… — Vick Hope Copy Share Image
The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I have the Sony Reader; I have the Kindle as well. I don't really use either of them, to be honest. I'd… — Chad Hurley Copy Share Image
Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive — Petrarch Copy Share Image
“Here I am referring to the types of books that thirtyish women devour at private swim clubs, often to the dismay of… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“These are the books that brought me closer to myself, that shaped me and my world -- I hope they'll bring you… — Sara Nisha Adams Copy Share Image
I do write about thinkers. And that's what I love about reading. My favorite books, the ones that made me sit there… — Amy King Copy Share Image
The terrible thing about the Internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
Apple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the… — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
“He wondered if burned books made a special kind of smoke that clung to the world forever, in the same way that… — Suzanne Selfors Copy Share Image
