Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
I don't [even] know the number of books on Abraham Lincoln. Ten thousand, twelve thousand? I have seen various numbers. It seems… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
“The books I'd checked out of the library earlier in the week were still stacked on my bureau, whispering my name and… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The only projects that excite me have to be tied to some aspect of social change. No matter how beautiful, a coffee… — Homaro Cantu Copy Share Image
I can't wait to do the normal things. Like just doing your own groceries. Looking for your own tomatoes. I just can't… — Celine Dion Copy Share Image
you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Your boyfriend smells bad, says Sarah as she sniffs the armpit of the giant sweatshirt. All boys smell bad I say and… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
On YouTube, you know, if you say something, you know, that triggers somebody, it becomes a whole controversy, a whole thing -… — Shane Dawson Copy Share Image
“There were lives in those books, and deaths. Families and friends and lovers and enemies. Joy and despair, jealousy, envy, madness, and… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story… — Janice Y. K. Lee Copy Share Image
The Old Religion, as we call it, is closer in spirit to Native American traditions or to shamanism of the Arctic. It… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
“left her to work, grabbed a book that Holly had lent me, and tried to get past the second chapter. It was… — Steve McHugh Copy Share Image
Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
In a way, that's also a recognition that Dante needs Virgil and that the Inferno needs the Aeneid and that the epic… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Not only do I recommend Wendell Berry to anyone who will talk to me for more than seven seconds, but I buy… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my… — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
People would much rather argue their own visions and conceptions about a book than engage in a dialogue with the author, because… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
Writing a book set in New Mexico was partially a way to express my own love for the state, and partially a… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write a book. Not a romance novel. Maybe a crime thriller. Something with action. Maybe that will happen… — Becky Sauerbrunn Copy Share Image
Life is like a book. Some chapters sad, some happy, and some exciting. But if you never turn the page, you will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's like when you read a book and you know that the words are important, but the images blossoming in your imagination… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my lifeand, sometimes, to escape it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And when the book of Daniel was showed to him (Alexander the Great) wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should… — Josephus Copy Share Image
“Dare to imagine. Dare to be. Books are the seeds. Dreams are the soil. The fruit of the harvest, a world reborn.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is. — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Buy printed books because you save real thoughts of writers. Content of digital books can be changed easy if it is needed.” — Ekaterina Yakovina Copy Share Image
Social Security Works! puts expanding Social Security front and center on the national agenda, where it belongs. Everyone who has a stake… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such… — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image