I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Kids tell me all the time, "I don't know how you do it, but that's us in the book." That's the kind… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
There are records that you just sink into. They coincide with what you’re going through and become an ally. If our records… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
In the course of writing a book I'll produce loads of pieces of paper to help the novel itself. Diagrams, charts, family… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Remember, we're talking [in The Black Power Mixtape] about 1967, the year before [Martin Luther] King's assassination. We're talking about the emergence… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
However, the daily life of the slaves in the South, as observed by many travelers, was obscured for all time by the… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had to work hard and hit the books because the opportunity to play in the NFL is not really that big,… — Jerry Rice Copy Share Image
. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave… — Robert Purvis Copy Share Image
We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
We are probably the only artists in the world who have a 2,000-page book on a work of art that doesn't exist.… — Christo Copy Share Image
I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“My ideal relationship with a book is that I will read it for the first time entirely unspoiled. I won’t know anything… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
In his book Stand Ye In Holy Places, President Harold B. Lee wrote that one is converted when his eyes see what… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
New Self, New World is an extraordinary work—an awesome display of wisdom distilled from the world’s great wisdom traditions and the majestic… — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet:… — Marianne Boruch Copy Share Image
I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare… — Francesca Annis Copy Share Image
I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
Conspiracies fascinate me. When I visited the Rozabal shrine in Srinagar before writing my first book, I remember thinking that the person… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
When I was little, my older brother, Gary, was forced to read a book a week in fourth grade. The books he… — Keith Hernandez Copy Share Image
Spring had come. Despite the many wet and gusty days which April had thrust in rude challenge upon reluctant May, in the… — Ralph Connor Copy Share Image
I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, words mean more than we mean to express when… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I… — Nancy Spain Copy Share Image
I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I'm still happy with the way Einstein's Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Primate books are good for us. They remind us that we're primates, too. And the embarrassing primate books are best. Macachiavellian Intelligence… — Michael Bywater Copy Share Image
The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've been doing short-form writing for a decade, and six years ago I signed with an agent, and we've been working on… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
Stephen King told me a long time ago, when he gave me some advice about the movies. He said to take the… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
A masterly analysis of how political interests, economic circumstances, development strategies, and local history have shaped what are surprisingly different versions of… — Nancy Birdsall Copy Share Image
Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
“Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
When I go to buy a book, I always ask if it is right for me at this time, something I need… — Echo Bodine Copy Share Image
I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe in previous lives and the Muse—and that books and music exist before they are written and that they are propelled… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
As a state legislator, I had worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass a number of bills, including some related to higher… — Joaquin Castro Copy Share Image
I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy.… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image