I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I loved Katy Wix's book 'Delicacy.' It's a poignant and beautifully penned book about grief and cake. Together at last. — Tim Key Copy Share Image
What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen… — Andrei Sinyavsky Copy Share Image
Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted… — Alice Cary Copy Share Image
“any book in the world - if there was only one way to read and understand it, what would be the point… — Kate Milford Copy Share Image
No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I realized early on in writing the book that it needed to be from a family point of view, and that nobody… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
...Albert-next-door doesn't care for reading, and he has not read nearly so many books as we have, so he is very foolish… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, "disgusting" doesn't refer to the books but to the subjective reaction of the person making the complaint. I don't think that… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I have all my tricks to unplugging. Sometimes I just close my eyes and I breathe a couple of times, even if… — Kissey Copy Share Image
If you're not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown up. Even… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
I feel like if I'm going to give you a book about my dad, then I really want to give you my… — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
There are different reasons why people write: for themselves, or for other writers, or to get prizes, or keeping an audience in… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
“A book is like a trapdoor that leads to a secret attic: You can open it and go inside. And your world… — Antonio Iturbe Copy Share Image
If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Everyone if so warm, and the children know my from the children's books. Their oldest siblings or young parents know me from… — Henry Winkler Copy Share Image
“While Karl Marx made some perceptive pronouncements about the value of books, it was the wiser Marx, Groucho, who observed that “outside… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Never judge the others for each one wears a cover for their version of the original. (talking about individuals in the stream… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
My earliest memory of books is not of reading but of being read to. I spent hours listening, watching the face of… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched… — Moby Copy Share Image
I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things. — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to… — Darrell Hammond Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
“What kind of girl reads Wealth of Nations for fun?” She closed the book and looked at the front jacket, then at… — Jill Barnett Copy Share Image
In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music.… — Emanuel Celler Copy Share Image
Books gave us a way to shape ourselves - to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was very lucky to befriend many authors before even signing with an agent, and they were all so supportive of me… — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The Marvel universe is a deep, weird, woolly place, and getting to expose strange corners of it is part of the fun… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
“Do you have any old copies of Dickens? Bookseller: We've got a copy of David Copperfield from 1850 for $150. Customer: Why… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
