That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No man is equal to his book. All the best products of his mental activity go into his book, where they come… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
A good solo is like a book. It will start out in a phrase, it will go on in paragraphs, and then… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel.… — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
I was on one of my fruitarian diets" Steve Jobs recalled "I had just comeback from the apple farm. It sounded fun,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks...Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
Thomas Mann used to write education novels and now you can write an education memoir, and there are all these memoirs coming… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book. They become so real to me,… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“This book is so huge, that the mythology took many months to create. There are literally hundreds of characters , and many… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I made a conscious decision when I was writing that book to depict in real time how I treated it, and how… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the… — A. E. van Vogt Copy Share Image
As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on… — Charles Bolden Copy Share Image
I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I… — Gloria Stuart Copy Share Image
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
To lead by example is to offer your life as a living diarry for others to read. Never make your life pages… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again.… — Max Roach Copy Share Image
Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Everybody should write a book whether you get it published or not because the experience of sort of taking it all and… — Gary Dell'Abate Copy Share Image
I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
You pour your soul into your book, but you never know how it will be received, and when people like your baby,… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
The books the Holy Spirit is writing are living, and every soul a volume in which the divine author makes a true… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Nothing surprised me more, and meant more to me, than seeing an entire class of ninth graders mob Congressman [John] Lewis at… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image