People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I had to keep the text pretty spare compared to what I would typically do in a picture book. My picture books… — Laurie Keller Copy Share Image
Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973]. — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
“Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing the book,… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book.… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
I have long profited from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's gifts in the field of spiritual development, and I am delighted that she has… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
My husband wrote me love letters while I was on location in Canada and pregnant. They turned into being about food, and… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
The National Book Festival is a great way for families and friends to share the creative works of some of America's most-loved… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed,… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Have you really read all those books in your room?” Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em.… — John Green Copy Share Image
I could not write my books without the library's help. Even with the ease of Internet research, I find books to be… — Peg Kehret Copy Share Image
Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in… — Christian Lacroix Copy Share Image
My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
“So the beloved children's book author took a deep breath, opened his own book to the very first page, and began reading,… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap… — Timothy Dalton Copy Share Image
Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to… — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I took that bible and I went home and I held it up and I said God, I really don't know you… — Paula White Copy Share Image
Although the point of blogging is that it doesn't pay, I often steal from my blog for paid publication. I've based several… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
What I did in the book [Today Matters] is I tried to help a person make their day - every day -… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I'm going to use… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
I love to read. I'm still pen pals with my ninth-grade English teacher, Mr. Shanley. He tells me what books to read. — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
“The attentive reading of a book is really a continuous commentary, a succession of notes that emanate from the inner voice.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
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