Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration. — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
But he thought all the strange words were beautiful, and he had never had a book of his own before. — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase. — Henny Youngman Copy Share Image
The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one. — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Because I cook a lot, I wanted to write a recipe book, really incorporating the message that you don't have to starve… — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
'Weedflower' was already in the copyediting phase when I heard about the Newbery award, so it didn't really influence my writing of… — Cynthia Kadohata Copy Share Image
“Kafka noted in a letter to his friend Oskar Pollak that “some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s… — David Mikics Copy Share Image
When I near the end of a book, it feels as if the entire universe meets me more than halfway and supports… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The TV audience is way bigger than a book audience, and no matter what I do, I'm always thinking if this will… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Like most writers, we like to find what we know and pass it along to anyone who cares. When that's done, as… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
A lot of guys in the prison think they're bad. Some of them are, but when it comes to being bad in… — Tex Watson Copy Share Image
A fantastic, gleeful, chrome-plated-slick debut of a novel. In Jonathan Chase, Markham has created the perfect cliche-shattering super spy while honoring the… — Greg Rucka Copy Share Image
But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons.… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book… All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Whenever I start a new book, I think, 'This is the most interesting subject of all time. It's sad, I'll never enjoy… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image