Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in 'What made you pick this book I didn't want to be read to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
After finishing 'The Book of Life,' I needed a bit of a break from the Bishops and de Clermonts. Honestly, I wasn't… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
“When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book,… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Trying to play my part and stay home, Burying my nose in a book like a gnome, But I know how Rapunzel… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
One of the things I want to do in the book is to explore how philosophy can be done in literature. I… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . .… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
William Goldman's Marathon Man was a novel that taught me about suspense. I was maybe 16 years old when I read it… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“Why do you think I'm reading this? But you know—though maybe you have different standards for what constitutes 'interesting' than I do—there's… — Natsuhiko Kyogoku Copy Share Image
I think that 'City of Heavenly Fire' is definitely a book where all the characters are tested to their limits, and they… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
My daughter will be reading about Pat Buchanan in a history book someday, and I am hanging out fist-bumping with him and… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
“[Carlos] Ruiz Zafon holds dear the belief that when you read a book, you take a holiday in the brain of the… — Helen Pitts Copy Share Image
“My work comprises one vast book like Proust's except that my remembrances are written on the run instead of afterwards in a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
My toughest criticism usually comes from myself. As my editor can attest to, I'm never done tweaking a book until the production… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
You get caught up in a cycle at some point, so I broke the cycle and decided; I'm going to really write… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I think [Ecstasy] was a really good stab. It wasn't my strongest book or my strongest material, but they wanted to make… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
Culturally speaking, I was raised in a Jewish household. In addition to the religious side of it, I was taught respect for… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The other day in the garage, I found a book report from the seventh grade that I did about silent movie stars.… — Mark Bridges Copy Share Image
I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are… — Josh Lucas Copy Share Image
Used books are the sluts of the literary world. Passed around from person to person, spreading their pages for anyone, getting cheaper… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
... I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
Being an umpire wasn't such a tough job. You really have to understand only two things and that's maintaing discipline and knowing… — Cal Hubbard Copy Share Image
When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
At age 10, or even 15, it would have meant the world to me to see a Pakistani girl portrayed positively, let… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I read a lot of those Single Girl in New York books, like "Fear of Flying," where you could sort of put… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
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