You can't judge a book by its cover until you open up and read it. There are going be a million stories… — Dion Waiters Copy Share Image
There are already current laws on the books and there are - and jurisdictions. The IRS can come in and do any… — Paula White Copy Share Image
I love other movies that have been made since, but I think more than any comic book movie, 'Superman' just totally seemed… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don't think too… — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
If you attach no importance to weight problems, if not being able to wear new, trendy small-sized clothes does not cause you… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison … Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
To write a book such as Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn is a formidable undertaking. You must accumulate thousands of facts and… — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Copy Share Image
The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
I went out and started on my way up in television. I wrote music, I wrote books, I played an instrument half-ass.… — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
My favorite is 'The Last Coyote.' I'm not saying that's the best book I've written; I hope I haven't written my best… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
There are instances where lines in my work are borrowed or stolen from sources, mainly from books, or they become my own… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
There is nothing in your budget for joy. No books, no flowers, no music, not even a cold beer. And there is… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong desire to prove there's something else. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
It's hard when you are placing all your bets on this one project to skyrocket you to a place where you can… — Rachel Zegler Copy Share Image
That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an… — Charles Tupper Copy Share Image
Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being. — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“In addition to my new outlook on life, in some absurdly simple way, Anissa gave me several new reasons to live. Above… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
When a book's pattern and the shape of its inner life is as plain to the reader as it is to the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Inexplicable: I recently won in court to stop my book "America by Heart" from being leaked, but US Govt can't stop Wikileaks'… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: "Look for God in no other place than everywhere." Go and tell that… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact that with 'Through the Looking-Glass' the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me... I have done… — John Tenniel Copy Share Image
My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down… — Ellen Tauscher Copy Share Image
The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut.… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Thanks to Dr Nick Edwards, who helped persuade me to write this book. Feel free to read his book In Stitches. It… — Benjamin Daniels Copy Share Image
It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
“Quite by chance, her talk of ghosts comes on the very day the book I am in the middle of reading has… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“A book is a machine to think with, but it need not, therefore, usurp the functions either of the bellows or the… — Ivor A. Richards Copy Share Image
Ideas are like dreams; they will disappear unless we record them. Write a book, a blog, build a company, anything that makes… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
