“The Book Booth There's not a big selection, It's not locked for protection, But at the intersection Of Booth and Telephone, Two… — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
If somebody can act out one of the books as a play, if they can see a play, film, or television show… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
It would be the death of all creativity for me if I had to sit there and be concerned with the sensibilities… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Mais enfin, bande de critiques, les livres que vous ne comprenez pas ne vaudraient-ils pas au moins que vous les signaliez? For… — Boris Vian Copy Share Image
How do you remember everything from different books when you are still writing the HP series? As obsessive fans will tell you,… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I like things to be really, really funny, or really, really dramatic. Those books are certainly the ones that grab me. I… — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my most… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
“What a joy this book is! I love recipe books, but it’s short-lived; I enjoy the pictures for several minutes, read a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would be wonderful with a 100-year moratorium on literature talk, if you shut down all literature departments, close the book reviews,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
It's a challenge of to write a narrator who is doing something that is really unlikeable and morally questionable. A lot of… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
Like a versatile baller, George Dohrmann swings seamlessly from position to position: investigative journalist, social critic, gifted storyteller. The result is a… — L. Jon Wertheim Copy Share Image
The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“so cute and quaint. It actually makes me feel so positive about books. That people are still so afraid of books that… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine… — Don Novello Copy Share Image
“You're ruining that book!" He pointed to the page I'd torn out. "That's a perfectly good book!" Holding his gaze, I reached… — Kate Avery Ellison Copy Share Image
What, are you like Buffy or something? A vampire slayer?” I wish. “No, but my sister is. And my boyfriend’s a vampire… — Mari Mancusi Copy Share Image
When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
Michel Houellebecq is the most interesting, provocative and important European novelist of my generation. Period. No one else comes close. He has… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“When I read, I read desperately because I was desperate — desperate to exchange my own anxious thoughts for the calming thoughts… — Sean Norris Copy Share Image
The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria… — Nils Kjaer Copy Share Image
We're at a point nowhere it has to change. We have characters that are not alive that are alive in the book.… — Scott M. Gimple Copy Share Image
Well, I'm very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. I never look at fashion magazines. I… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read. A library is a resource.… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
When I taught, a lot of my students weren't big readers, so they would write something and I realized that they thought… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Very much in my books people find not surrogate families because they are real families. We've got families that we're related to… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Grandpa did everything at his own pace, a speed that my sister and I referred to as 'when snails attack.' ... My… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
As a writer, my goal, (which I'm never going to achieve, and I know that, and no writer can achieve that,) but… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
For starters, let's dispense with the cheap jokes about cannibalism. That means cracks about giving an arm and a leg - sorry… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
I feel like in American fiction we're moving out of a period of intense irony, and I'm very glad about that. I… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I'm criticizing the way they are perceived. I was going through a book of Marina Abramovic and Ulay's 1970s performance work the… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
