“Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.” — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace. — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I like shows or films or books that have messages but don't beat people over the head with them. — Anna Paquin Copy Share Image
Sometimes if a script is based on a book, that's what you should do: represent the book. — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
“I hate anything superficial. But I will take the book and look at it, and tell you what I think of the… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Every good story needs a hero. Back when I wrote 'The Search,' that hero was Google - the book wasn't about Google… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory’s The Sport… — Anita DeFrantz Copy Share Image
“Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Copy Share Image
“...ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the… — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (tutor to Nero) complained that his peers were wasting time and money accumulating too many books,… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I've been lucky enough to have made enough of these types of children's books that while I don't necessarily know what works,… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
I could say that all my books were conceived by the time I was twenty, although they were not to be written… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it,"… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
It is impossible to do a movie exactly the way a comic book is written and drawn, just as it's impossible to… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I'm a very wide reader. I read serious books and I read airplane, forgettable books. I never have fewer than four or… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image