I never had money for anything. But I tell you what did really work - books. Between the covers of those books… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
[My] Books are like puppies and children: you love each one for different reasons. I don't actually have a favorite because, if… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
The books that really made an impact on me were not set in New Zealand. Some were New Zealand novels, but the… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book, Whereon who rightly… — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
“What’s that?” "It’s a book.” "What’s that, then?” "A non-volatile storage medium. It’s very rare, you should have one.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
50 is a great person. I was a little intimidated when I met him for the first time in 2006. I didn't… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“And now the measure of my song is done: The work has reached its end; the book is mine, None shall unwrite… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Spook smiled. "Elend is a forgetful scholar - twice as bad as Sazed ever was. He gets lost in his books and… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope,… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
There are some who say that sitting at home reading is the equivalent of travel, because the experiences described in the book… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Incompatibilists will tell you that a work of art has no meaning unless the artists could have chosen to create a different… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do… — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
Don't come to New York until you've finished a book. It's too expensive. You'll never write anything. You'll spend all your time… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I wish there were a hundred services with which I could easily look at such a book; it would have saved me… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification.… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Teaching high school was my real training as a novelist: it got me out of my head, and (at least a little)… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
“So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world, interweaving their words with our own to ward off… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
I read that book How to Hug a Porcupine [by Julie Ross] - it's my parenting bible. They say you have to… — Kelly Ripa Copy Share Image
“A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information…The key is the teacher.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book [The Lord of the Rings] which… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I like every individual editor, designer, marketing and publicity person I deal with, but I don't like what publishers, corporately, are doing… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
![“[My] Books are like puppies and children: you love each one for different reasons. I don't actually have a favorite because, if I were honest, I'm always more excited about what is coming.” quote by Nikki Giovanni](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/541/nikki-giovanni-1757_book_my-books-are-like-puppies-and-children-y_572840.jpg)
![“We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a1/virginia-woolf-49_book_we-agreed-that-people-are-now-afraid-of_1329018.jpg)
![“I read that book How to Hug a Porcupine [by Julie Ross] - it's my parenting bible. They say you have to trust your children and give them freedom. I say, OK, but this is New York City!” quote by Kelly Ripa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d0e/kelly-ripa-16337_book_i-read-that-book-how-to-hug-a-porcupine_381869.png)
![“Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book [The Lord of the Rings] which will break your heart."” quote by C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc0/c-s-lewis-2-132_book_here-are-beauties-which-pierce-like-swor_160869.png)
