Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves. — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Somebody once said if it’s something a single book can explain, it’s not worth having explained.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation ... — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“People have incredible nerve to do terrible things, but never actually admit to them.” — Henry Mosquera Copy Share Image
I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Each my book feels like my last book. And then I think, like a dedicated alcoholic, that one more won't do me… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There's something touching about a kid who's reading a book that's printed on actual paper. I think that anything that kids start… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
[T]he one thing I want for you is to recognize when you are really singing in writing practice and honor that. Trust… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
When it comes to actually writing the book/story, I work on a computer. I wish I could write longhand, but I can't. — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
I hate [ebooks]. It's like making believe there's another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of sex. There isn't another kind… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most remarkable thing I found about the Bible was how flexible it is. Here we have a book written 3,000… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The latest gorgeous entry in the Belknap Press' growing library of annotated Jane Austen novels arrives, this time the mighty Emma under… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image
“Dune; Nova; Double Star; The Corridors of Time; Cat's Cradle; Half Past Human; Murder in Retrospect; Gideon's Day; The Red Right Hand;… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Maybe in writing about and through trauma it was therapeutic in a way, but it didn't feel like it at the time.… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
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