My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word 'snob' comes a little to mind - derives from the… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
I liked painting, very early on, even more than drawing. I used poster paint on posterboard. I would copy images that I… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Nowadays I imagine people find freer and more accepting venues in blogs, on Tumblr and Instagram and Facebook, in the riot of… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
“Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
THREE DAYS TO DEAD is one of the best books I've read. Ever. Evy Stone is a heroine's heroine, and I rooted… — Jackie Morse Kessler Copy Share Image
I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of books in the world--the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that… — LouAnne Johnson Copy Share Image
“...that's what a book should do. It should tie you up, it should work you up, make you think, make you see,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When books come out on religion today, what are they about, well, Noah's Ark or when we go to heaven, does our… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
Because kids are physically smaller, there's an assumption by people who haven't read a kids' book for a long time that their… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
Well, Buttermere, this is a day that is good to live and breathe in, that makes a man feel in his prime.… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
“We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that… — C.K. Webb Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think…Throughout the Mahabharata ... Krishna goads human beings into all… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Books have always been my escape - where I go to bury my nose, hone my senses, or play the emotional tourist… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Trust strikes at the heart of our success at JetBlue. Trust is key to the speed of our growth. The Speed of… — David Neeleman Copy Share Image
It's going to be labor-intensive and time-consuming, but you need to take all the books down and put them on the floor.… — Marie Kondo Copy Share Image
'Courtney' is a more punk-rock kids' book. It has this precious veneer that Courtney's terrible behavior trashes. And it's basically about how… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
I only know two cats in this business that really had it all; Elvis was one of those guys, the other was… — Carl Perkins Copy Share Image
I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had begun to read books and things and, in fact, one of the persons who started me thinking seriously was an… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Justin Halpern tosses lightning bolts of laughter out of his pocket like he is shooting dice in a back alley. In one… — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
The world is telling you through The New York Times and The New York Review of Books "You must shut up. You… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
I went into Hollywood and met Mike Aarons and went to Grantray-Lawrence Animation to work on the, by today's standards, extremely cheap… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
I think my style changes somewhat. The themes I am interested in exploring are mostly the same, but I tackle them differently.… — Vandana Singh Copy Share Image
Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare… — Myla Goldberg Copy Share Image
I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved,… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
