I think that one of the things that my dad was grappling with towards the end was how that shift had happened… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
“I think it's because when you hold a book you're also holding a tree in one form or another, and that direct… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
I made some changes, I didn't go around telling everybody I was ready to make changes, I just remained me. I may… — Reginald Arvizu Copy Share Image
Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It is never appropriate to comment on a woman's breasts. I would never do it on the street or at a supermarket,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
My wife, Amanda, is terribly good at warping reality. She is like a bowling ball on a rubber sheet, and you find… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“This was the book I read over and over. I really felt so in tune with them- I knew all the dates… — Christian Tetzlaff Copy Share Image
It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these… — Richard Donner Copy Share Image
I read a book in the late 1990s called The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, by Erich Fromm, and it had a profound… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I don't like that whole "art should challenge you" thing. Because I don't feel like art actually does challenge you. I was… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.'… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today’s society, there’s so much pressure to communicate, eat… — Nicky Wire Copy Share Image
It is false to speak of realization. What is there to realize? The real is as it is always. We are not… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“If you have not touched the rocky wall of a canyon. If you have not heard a rushing river pound over cobblestones.… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
I was a professional chess player in Romania, but only a small-time master. When I came to France, I continued playing chess… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually… — John Green Copy Share Image
Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for every teacher or librarian who reads a book and says, "This is exactly the book that so-and-so needs to… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
"Night sky was black and then there was blood, morning crack of light on the edge of the earth." The ideal first… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
21 years ago when I started cooking, to be a cook meant that you were going to stay in the basement. Being… — Rene Redzepi Copy Share Image
I think we have a great deal of mythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Good books leave an impression. Great books forever alter the way you think about what it means to be alive. You Disappear… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think there's a whole book being written about it in the UK. I don't know if you can get it here.… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
Nicholson Baker talks about the way in which the most successful nonfiction books are those that can be boiled down into an… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
There's a design book I got years ago that had a statue of a dog with a bunch of hats on it,… — Marcela Valladolid Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to fail. I fail every day. I failed thousands of times writing The Book Thief, and that book now… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
As a reader, I do not like to have everything handed to me. Because after a while it gets formulaic and I'm… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
I state in my book 'Become Your Own Matchmaker,' confidence is the key to any endeavor. Women don't realize that when they… — Patti Stanger Copy Share Image
“My books rustled by like a military of ducks. My mother had never liked my books. She'd said they kept me from… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
There were many books in my parents' home. I'm from a family of five children and we were all readers. And so… — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
At bed-time I went into my room and put out the light. I didn't get undressed. I lay on my bed and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It really gets me when the critics say I haven't done enough for the economy. I mean, look what I've done for… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
