If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“She sighed and looked at him sympathetically. 'Cool flame tricks aside, there's no competition.' He lifted his eyebrow. 'Library wins?' 'Every single… — Elizabeth Hunter Copy Share Image
I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, 'Well, how much energy do you use at home?'… — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
One of the things I would love to do is 'Axe Cop,' which is a comic book. I would like to be… — Ken Marino Copy Share Image
When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who… — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
'StrengthsFinder 2.0' is an effort to get the core message and language out to a much broader audience. We had no idea… — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“If the bible be true, God commanded his chosen people to destroy men simply for the crime of defending their native land.… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Listen," he said one afternoon in the library. "You have to read a book three times before you know it. The first… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Emily Kendal Frey's The Grief Performance is a book that condenses a journey of finding and re-finding loss into beautiful packages. The… — Dorothea Lasky Copy Share Image
I am very bad at remembering the books I've read and so recently I had a wonderful experience. I decided I wanted… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
When I was developing the [TV Series "Daredevil"] idea, we were really doing something closer to what was in the comic book.… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book.… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks,… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
My agent, Jeff Andrews, suggested I write a book. For some reason. he doesn't like it when I'm not doing anything. — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
I think we are very environmental people. We need to be supported environmentally. Books very much have that imprint on the mind. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Wizomania' is basically perpetuating the myth that there were ancient magical, wise ones in Oz, who set down all their magic in… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in… — Jill Ker Conway Copy Share Image
If you preachers would start winning souls everywhere you go, you wouldn't have to get a book of illustrations to preach from… — Jack Hyles Copy Share Image
There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Books are low-tech, portable packages of the widest range of human experience, presented in a format which gives time to grasp complex… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
It's funny: when I go to a school and speak, and when they hear the back story about me, they want to… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I'm strictly a one-project-at-a-time kind of guy. If I came up with a compelling idea for a different book while working on… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Each of us will make his own shelf of books. The book for me is the book that delights, attracts, soothes, or… — Maurice Francis Egan Copy Share Image
The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I'm also developing my own narrative, because I'm the son of a widow. And so, while working with women and gathering their… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
It's better to be nominated for awards than not to be nominated for them, but of course to some degree such awards… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
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