Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
(mother)" She used to tell me to get my nose out of my book and go get some fresh air. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Book publishing is a passion that one hopes eventually becomes a good paying job.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
It was unimaginable what happens to you when you get known for a book that everybody reads, or that everybody has heard… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas. — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“God doesn’t promise us escape from suffering or pain. Rather, He promises to miraculously use even bad situations for your ultimate good.” — Jim George Copy Share Image
If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their… — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
People who know and read comics know that there's a huge diversity amongst the types of stories. Nobody ever goes 'how many… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
They're {Marvel] the ones who have went out and bought the comic book whenever it came out. They're the real investors. They… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
You read a bunch of books and you get a bunch of how-tos, and you take a bunch of classes and you… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
As I write in the book, I do not regret either of my votes for President [Barack] Obama, nor my support of… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I had some very, very fond memories of the people I worked with and the authors I worked with - and I… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Women are books, and men the readers be, Who sometimes in those books erratas see; Yet oft the reader's raptured with each… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image