History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity. — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges. — Laura Matilda Towne Copy Share Image
“Books took away the pain and disappointment, they always did. Books closed bad doors and opened good ones.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Books and characters in books, pictures and elements in pictures—they all have families and ancestors, just like people.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Every single one of my books had its title changed almost as we were going to press, for all sorts of different… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
No." Mosca bit her lip and shook her head firmly. Books no longer seemed quite enough. I don’t want a happy ending,… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
Schools and parents can team up to find books that kids will really get excited about - that will make them say,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
They're so effusive with their love... theatre fans. I'm a big comic book fan and there's a lot of parallels with them… — Okieriete Onaodowan Copy Share Image
The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It's a really common trap to want your life to live up to some standard that you believe in, and then you… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
Do not use intoxicants of any sort. We who should be serving the world should not ruin our health by smoking and… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An immigration violation should not give the government license to rip up the rule book. By restricting judicial oversight and blocking public… — Jamie Fellner Copy Share Image
I happened to write a book about the stuff I've been involved in over the years. It just so happened that my… — Ralph Sarchie Copy Share Image
I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
