A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Im omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though Ill read a novel in a day… — O.R. Melling Copy Share Image
The words of musicals were the moral codes that I lived by. I found meaning and messages in musicals that I didn't… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations… — Lucian Copy Share Image
I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the… — Adam Lambert Copy Share Image
You can't write a book about Hillary Clinton and not anticipate some blowback, so I always knew it was going to be… — Amy Chozick Copy Share Image
The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful reading of… — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
I like the idea that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
I actually started an adult book, worked on it for about two years, and then decided it just wasn't coming together for… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things [...] The… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I propose to construct a new chart for navigating, on which I shall delineate all the sea and lands of the Ocean… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
For writers: If you polish a book too much, it'll be flat and shiny and smooth--and not too interesting. It's the little… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
In terms of why everything is different, each book is different than the one before because I'm so bored of what I… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
I won't lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of make your heart stop. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Sparrow Hill Road' is a stand-alone book that ties into the InCryptid universe, not the launching point for a whole new series. — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“We fell into the book of love stumbling through the pages filling up the paragraphs creating new chapters right till the very… — Pyrokardia Copy Share Image
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Everyone should think for themselves. I learned that in a book I bought called 'Everyone Should Think For Themselves'. — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief. . . .… — Janet Lembke Copy Share Image
My favorite book is 'Million-Dollar Throw.' It's about football, which is one of the main things I like watching and reading about. — Bradley Steven Perry Copy Share Image
[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
[Jonathan] Edwards definitely shows up in the book [Saving Calvinism]. He appears as one of the interlocutors in the chapter on free… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: its the next work, still to be written, that… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr.… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
People may think that because I have illustrated and written all these books it must be easy for me, but it's not… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It's much different today than it was during the Cold War. The CIA is not the subject of many books anymore. But… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
In terms of writing, I think what most fiction writers treasure more than anything is the feeling that they're living for the… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
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