“If you read one book you are a clone. If you read two books you are confused. If you read ten books… — Tim Keller Copy Share Image
i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
“If I read a book that impresses me, I have to pull myself together before I mingle with other people. Otherwise they… — Diana Mauer Copy Share Image
“La dernière chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la première. ( The last thing… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to believe there are people that don’t read books. There’s so much magic in words and well told stories.” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The basic challenge of any book is you know you're going to be working on it for three or four years or… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
In a way, I'm glad I'm first because I won't have to panic about following anybody other than industry legend John Romita… — Declan Shalvey Copy Share Image
It's all still about having a good story. You have to have a good story as your anchor, as your main focus.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it, owing to the nature of the laws, as a… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
“I know who the real hero is, and it isn't me or brave Lanaya. It's an old man with a white beard… — Rodman Philbrick Copy Share Image
You have the power to pause stuff and you have the power to go to the bathroom. You can do whatever you… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
I'm catching up. I'm satisfied with the show. I think I want to get better and better and keep building. It took… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books. Ron was always my favorite character, because I feel like… — Rupert Grint Copy Share Image
To have been able to write the books I wanted to write, on demanding subjects like war and the history of psychiatry,… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“Ladies, get confident bout yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man… — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
The truly wise man is he who believes the Bible against the opinions of any man. If the Bible says one thing,… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will… — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly,… — Ludwig Bemelmans Copy Share Image
What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what… — Stedman Graham Copy Share Image
“Don't ask me about my book...read it. You will find what you need and what speaks to you in the depths or… — Ina Brink Copy Share Image
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly. — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Try to read books about meditation, but not so many different viewpoints that they get confusing. There is no best way. It's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
'The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage, and… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but… — Leah Price Copy Share Image
