Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world. — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
A book very much is the center of the road, so people always can refer back to it. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest;… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
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Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“These remedies that I provide in this book do not come any better than this. If they were any better, I would… — Matthew J. Murphy Copy Share Image
Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people.… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Anyone who has crossed from the district of Bolkhov into that of Zhizdra will probably have been struck by the sharp difference… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
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I think my moment of revelation came when I saw this young man come on court in the most flamboyant clothes. He… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
I was pretty nervous when I met Robert Kirkman. It's very strange to meet someone who created you. Andrea [ from The… — Laurie Holden Copy Share Image
Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic overtones, soul orgies, wailings among the shadows, weird gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings… — Jack London Copy Share Image
A reckoning is coming on the state of the internet journalism, because right now, the way it's set up, there is so… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I'm a spiritual person, I believe that if you read the bible, you get what you want from it. But, when you… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
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