Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
“Three possessions you should prize: A field, a friend, and a book.” — Hai guan zong shui wu si shu China Hai guan zong shui wu si shu Copy Share Image
There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The books that matter to me...are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself. — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We still have books because they are so brilliantly suited to the way human beings absorb information and at their best, they… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to… — Horace Copy Share Image
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
How can you not understand?" He pointed at her books. "You read novels. Obviously, I'm here to rescue you. Don't I look… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I like to remind teachers that even though they're all overwhelmed and overloaded, and it's easy to get burned out, it really… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I think that we did a really good thing when we elected Barack Obama. I read his books. He is absolutely and… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
I think Twitter is the literature of the 21st century. I think it's an incredible art because when you make a book,… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
Awareness-mindfulness-is the first step in healing. In Counterclockwise, Dr. Ellen Langer eloquently describes how becoming more aware of our beliefs and expectations… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
