For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“True,' I said, amazed. Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or devine, that lie outside books.… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Why not admit that my dissatisfaction reveals an excessive ambition, perhaps a megalomaniac delirium? For the writer who wants to annul himself… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We did a 60 page book in one day. She's one of the most photogenic, easy to shoot, inspiring, extraordinary people in… — Nigel Barker Copy Share Image
I think it’s time to open the books on questions that have remained in the dark on the question of government investigations… — John Podesta Copy Share Image
Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
In my couple of books, including Going Clear, the book about Scientology, I thought it seemed appropriate at the end of the… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with;… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff… — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization,… — Dan Carter Copy Share Image
“sometimes, what i see is a library in a rural community. all the tall shelves in the big open room. and the… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I'm fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
One of the things we learned from that panel is the way poor communities use a library is very different from wealthy… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Society definitely encourages and condones men's violence toward women. Not as much as it used to be when it was less visible,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or… — Lance Burton Copy Share Image
Certainly with a book, people are going to be able to read it and give themselves permission to have that delicious feeling… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
I wish I could write a book that will be read for as long as our civilization lasts. I would value it… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
So that when you come to read the actual Bible you have a lay of the land. And you come to the… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
I was born in New Orleans, but I grew up in Hawaii. That was a paradise. That's a paradise I keep inside… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
'Big Sky Mountain' is the story of Hutch Carmody and Kendra Shepherd, lovers with a history, and a lot of hurt pride.… — Linda Lael Miller Copy Share Image
“I seek to speak to you, in some way, as your own self. Who can tell what this may mean? I myself… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
“...I think a book adaptation doesn't have to be just like the book, it has to feel like the book. That's what… — Kate Egan Copy Share Image
There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
…Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Given the current state of publishing, I think it helps to have a brand name on the cover of your book. Comedians… — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
