'Jane Eyre,' when I think of that book, it conjures up the best moments of college English courses. Literature is extraordinary, especially… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is like washing an elephant. You don't know from where you should start and where you should end.” — Yashvardhan Shukla Copy Share Image
I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Passionate and forcefully argued, Tar Sands is a wake-up call not just to Canadians but to the wider world to take a… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and… — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
A guy was trying to get a girl's attention. He decided to ask her to help him with his homework. She agreed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and… — Jesse L. Greenstein Copy Share Image
Please, no matter how we advance technologically , please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“in all the reading which you have ever read, did you ever read such a book as Locke’s Essay upon the Human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Skill sheets, workbooks, basal reader, flash cards are not enough. To convey meaning you need someone sharing the meaning and flavor of… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
“Face-book has all the social graces of a nose-picking, hyperactive six-year-old, standing at the threshold of your attention and chanting, “I know… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time… — Maj Sjowall Copy Share Image
Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
“I found Burns, absorbed, silent, abstracted from all around her by the companionship of a book, which she read by the dim… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton has finished writing her book where she says her marriage couldn't be stronger, and Bill just finished his book titled… — Craig Kilborn Copy Share Image
It's very strange for me to do a comic book for my first movie. But I used to collect - and I… — Shawn Crahan Copy Share Image
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
No one has been a greater botanist or zoologist. No one has written more books, more correctly, more methodically, from personal experience.… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
“We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I just finished a novel called 'Exult,' by Joe Quirk, last night. It's about hang gliding. I liked his first book, too,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I used to be way more nerdy about comic books and comic book characters. I still love… — Zachary Levi Copy Share Image
He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I definitely read the comic books and got as familiar with the comic books as possible. I was always a fan of… — Chris Zylka Copy Share Image
I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing'… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
“Even later, I will come to doubt whether I ever really believed such a book would not be found--maybe my words were… — Justin Torres Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing I need or want to know from the writers I admire that isn’t in their books. It’s better to read… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Prosperity: Great leaders teach other leaders the infinite intelligence that enables them to have plenty of… — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
Every book I've written has been different from the others, and each one seems to have its own timeline, requirements, and formal… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
