Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid. I had this series by Ballantine Books about the history of World Wars I and II. In… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“Like so many of the other books I read, it never seemed to me like a book, but like a place I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
There's a lot of stuff that happened to me when I was kinda young. Like when I was just 12, or 13… — Katie Price Copy Share Image
It is right for you, young men, to enrich yourselves with the spoils of all pure literature; but he who would make… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
Anti-Americanism is as old as the Republic--a historical constant, which is only remotely related to specific American behavior. So what is new?… — Josef Joffe Copy Share Image
People often ask me if I'm working on a book. That's not how I feel. I feel like I work in a… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“These books can be read, independently of their time and place, as a strong preventive medicine against the mentality of servility, and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The whole point was just to be yourself, no matter what that was. You didn't have to fit into a certain punk-rock… — John Porcellino Copy Share Image
To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Part of my impetus to get famous is to have access to printed matter. I love all the stuff like postcards, books,… — Jack Pierson Copy Share Image
It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Now she is inviting you to a seminar at the university, where books are analyzed according to all Codes, Conscious and Unconscious,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I was always fond of visiting new scenes, and observing strange characters and manners. Even when a mere child I began my… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I struggle with the fact that men's popular fiction is talked about differently. Books like mine don't get as many reviews and… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I actually kind of like Janet Reno. She seems like a nice enough lady. But when you're basically going through the entire… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and… — Edith Hall Copy Share Image
Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What President Obama has done so masterfully of late is to say, in so many words, "I'm signing this executive order permitting… — Kevin Roose Copy Share Image
The best stories I have heard were pointless, the best books those whose plot I can never remember, the best individuals those… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The most superficial fact regarding the 'Discourses,' the fact that the number of its chapters equals the number of books of Livy's… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read… — Meg Medina Copy Share Image
As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
That Elvis, man, he is all there is. There ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with him. He wrote the book.… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“I despise the kind of book which tells you how to live, how to make yourself happy! Philosophers have no good news… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“I walked to his bedside table next. Infinite Mayhem. the ninth sequel to The Prince of Dawn, lay atop the table next… — John Green Copy Share Image
A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there's no guarantee that you will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the biggest thing - and this I think is true of songs but also of movies and books and art… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night:… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
