They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds. I put… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
I tell people that life is like a book. Sometimes you've just got to turn the chapter. Even if you don't understand… — Danny Gokey Copy Share Image
With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
There are things I'll never talk about for sure. My life is an open book, but there's always a few secret pages… — Jessica Mulroney Copy Share Image
Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Dont judge me by how I look but by who I am...dont judge a book by its cover because you never know… — Tamara Bean Copy Share Image
The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
It's actually as simple as this. New authors, building their customer base, need physical bookshops. Physical bookshops are lovely tactile, friendly, expert,… — Tim Waterstone Copy Share Image
No, books. She would have maybe twenty going at a time, lying all over our house--on the kitchen table, by her bed,… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
That was my experience with everybody in the book. That was what was so cool. It's just an excuse to hang out… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
After 19 years of experimenting, a thousand mistakes, over 400 books, at least 200 bad diets... and a partridge in a pear… — Marilu Henner Copy Share Image
Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I embellished many details about my past experiences, and altered others in order to serve what I felt was the greater purpose… — James Frey Copy Share Image
The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
My all-time favourite children's book is 'Green Eggs and Ham' by Dr Seuss. Even as an adult I still appreciate it -… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
I should like to freeze in time all those I do love, keep them somehow safe from the ravages of the passing… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead of going on the… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love… — Morris West Copy Share Image
If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
Are there books about us or something?” This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study,… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I was also an Action Comic fan when I was a young kid and those comic books affected me and Superman is… — Charles Roven Copy Share Image
Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of papers and ink and glue - you sell… — Christopher Morlay Copy Share Image
I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it! — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
I buy a lot of books I never read. But that's not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
“As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen, my father gave me a first edition copy of Ray Bradbury's magnificent work, 'The Martian Chronicles.' I had… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Keep reading books, stay in school. I encourage kids to read as much as they can, I challenge you to read a… — Alex Rodriguez Copy Share Image
