When you are reading a book in a dark room, and come to a difficult part, you take it to a window… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The moment I feel pressure to read a book, I instinctively rebel against it - which is probably one reason I didn't… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Playing a flute is like writing a book. You're telling what's in your heart...It's easier to play if it's right from your… — Eddie Cahill Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I generally don't walk out of films. If I start a book, and I don't love it by page 100, I will… — David Dobkin Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know, this is a good book, how come no one is paying attention to… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books. In a volume by Pierre Louys all the girls are young and their… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Robert Nozick [a Havard philosopher, famous for his book "Anarchy, State and Utopia"] defined revenge as delivering the message that you know… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a… — Daniel Olivas Copy Share Image
It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I assumed just from being around, all these years, that people would immediately glom on to, Well, it's a departure, and it's… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
With 'Wonder Woman,' I did one story with Alex Ross, and I had a lot of fun doing it, but I don't… — Paul Dini Copy Share Image
Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read. — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
But one of my absolutely favorite things to do is go to comic book stores on the weekends. I'm a huge comic… — Paige Spiranac Copy Share Image
I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me. — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
“I sit in front of the notebook and feel like it’s just too late for me. And that this book isn’t working,… — Jessica Abel Copy Share Image
Play my own game. You can read all the books, but you have to listen to your intuition and not do everything… — Jennifer Tilly Copy Share Image
Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I've seen 13, 14-year-olds opening CDs as though they're records from the 1920s, going 'Look at this - there's a little book!'...… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
Some Time We Fail To Understand The Feelings Of Very Close People In Our Life Because A Book Held Very Near To… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The truth is, my life was made infinitely more difficult because I didn't read any books. But I didn't read any books.… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I would suggest one to book a cab or take a bus from Birmingham and visit the coastline in Cornwall. Located in… — Smriti Mandhana Copy Share Image
You should want to fight the biggest fights you can and so you could maximize your stature in the sport, on the… — Dan Goossen Copy Share Image
A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Keep your nose in a book – and keep other people's noses out of which books you choose to stick your nose into!” — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image