“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Rosemary, why do you love books so much?" (...) "Well, actually, I love books because books are my best friends.” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its… — Kim Boykin Copy Share Image
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought." — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
So it was this multi-perspective, multi-character book, and it went through all of these different manifestations. I'm not sure there was a… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
This book is unique. I know of no other which so artfully tackles two of the greatest mysteries of modern science, quantum… — George Greenstein Copy Share Image
The first aim of a good college is not to teach books, but the meaning and purpose of life. Hard study and… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
I love books the way I love nature. ... I can imagine now that a time will come, that it is almost… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much as I… — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“The book looked doomed, assailed on all sides by those who'd see it superseded by the synthetic-new and those who didn't give… — Charlie Hill Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you get into a record, it's like writing a book, and you get so far inside the story you can't… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I… — William James Copy Share Image
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I'm as much the men in my book as… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Don't judge a book by it's cover, cause the people you usually judge always come out the best people Be yourself, never… — Angel_eyes Copy Share Image
I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
As theories increased, simple medicines..were forgotten, at least in the politer nations. ...Medical books, were immensely multiplied,...(towards) an abstruse science, quite out… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“If we're genuinely interested in a book we can even bring ourselves to be greatful when others draw our attention to things… — Ian Watt Copy Share Image
My first book was on the grittier side of life. A week before being published, I realized all of my main characters… — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
There are an awful lot of readers who won't pick up a book if they think it's got anything horrific in it,… — Peter James Copy Share Image
I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“The book the snowman was the best book I have ever read it had suspence durring the whole book it was AWSOME!!!” — R.L. Stine Copy Share Image
A lot of the ways that I like to approach comic books, or anything like that, is not just the book itself,… — Kate Beaton Copy Share Image
Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
before I could read, almost a baby, I imagined that God, this strange thing or person I heard about, was a book. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book,… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
I've always loved children's books - it's not that I didn't like them, I just didn't think I wanted to do that.… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write a book about LA, a big ambitious book. Nobody had ever really done it with LA- treating… — James Frey Copy Share Image
In the Bhagavad-Gita, a book that I revere and respect, it's indicated that even women, along with animals, are capable of attaining… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
They say nobody has the attention span to read great books early in life. If I start to read something good, I'll… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a thesaurus of historical slang, and had… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker… — Patricia McCormick Copy Share Image