In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote,… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
As the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had… — Susan Shreve Copy Share Image
No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“This place is a mystery. A sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
Writing a book is something I actually feel like I could do. I don't know when that would happen, but I feel… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
“I took my time, running my fingers along the spines of books, stopping to pull a title from the shelf and inspect… — Beth Pattillo Copy Share Image
We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is,… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you… — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Royal Young has accomplished a rare feat in his fresh and riveting debut: he manages to recount his fascinating youth and unconventional… — Kristen Johnston Copy Share Image
When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It is very different. I mean, it was immediately different because it's a human being and it's not a vampire and it's… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The Color Purple really floored me. That book was just incredible because I loved the language. The biggest deal of that book… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Poppy was now almost well. She still slept more than usual, but when she wasn't sleeping she tromped around the doctor's house… — Jeanne DuPrau Copy Share Image
Exercise your imagination muscle! How many uses can you come up with for a flowerpot? Write down your answers. But don't write… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
A pretty woman is a Christmas tree,' my mother told me in the airport. This fella is hanging things on my branches… — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
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I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
I'm pleased to say that it [ a paper on the history of Attica] got much recognition with a 99 grade. It… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return!… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
I think comics will always be around. I think there's something nice about a comic book. People love to hold 'em, turn… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
It's turned into a world of amateurs. There are amateur actors making millions of dollars, amateur cinematographers, amateur directors... Jesus, these amateur… — James Coburn Copy Share Image
For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Juliana?” the words were low and far—too calm for her husband, who had found that he rather enjoyed the full spectrum of… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
I have to be careful not to visit one place right after the other and write one book after the other. Because… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my… — John Jakes Copy Share Image
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I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on… — Nathan Lane Copy Share Image
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