I don't mind what people say about me. I've never read a book about myself. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time. — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
“-"you dress to impress" -"No Angel,I undress to impress” — Becca Fitzpatrick Finale Copy Share Image
The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket. — Adrian McKinty Copy Share Image
There's a children's book by Anthony Browne called 'The Tunnel' that I've always loved. — Billy Howle Copy Share Image
When you feel your book is the height of irrelevance you can return to the excitement of the daily news. — Deborah Solomon Copy Share Image
There are days now where I think, "Oh man, that would've been a great entry," but I'm putting the pen down until… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
When you're done [with writing a book], people tell you "Well, gee, I'm not interested." "Great, I'm glad I sat down and… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
Why can't God just defeat the devil and get rid of evil? It's the same reason the comic book character can't get… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“But don’t you think there some stories that are more alive than that? When you put certain books back on the shelf,… — Kristin Kladstrup Copy Share Image
When I was 18 I read a book about Buddhism and, before I was halfway through it I said to my mother,… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
We had collaborated with Allen Ginsberg on one of his last projects just before he died in the spring of '97, a… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
“Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from… — Karen White Copy Share Image
The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion,… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
“The novelist Umberto Eco famously kept what the writer Nassim Taleb called an “anti-library,” a vast collection of books he had not… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for anything that reminds me of what's possible in this life. Books can do that. Films can do that. Music… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image