I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for… — Michael Lindsay-Hogg Copy Share Image
I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“I encourage anyone who has gone through hardships to look back through their life’s chapters and see what can be turned into… — Jolina Petersheim Copy Share Image
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I'd like to get a chance to wear two different hats in the business. I also think it would be really great… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
When I was young, my knowledge of the literary world was a distorted tabloid sketch of dazzling fame, suffering genius, and tragic… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
“I have come to judge a good story as one that makes me feel as if I'm losing a friend when I… — Tom Ryan Copy Share Image
“Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“I believe in you my friend, so much so, that if any of my ideas make you feel belittled in any manner,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the… — David Pogue Copy Share Image
“ … The best pieces in [Queeries] - such as … Raymond John Woolfrey’s “Pages from My Window: Red Geraniums” - are… — John Woolfrey Copy Share Image
Perceval Press a publishing house I founded in 2002 and it's still going strong. Strong for us means not so many books… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
“I never found a book that did not have at least a little magic in it” — William Ritter Copy Share Image
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it. — Franklin P. Jones Copy Share Image
In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
“He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study,… — Anonymous 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
“Every book was a revelation to their suggestible young minds. They both sulked through their work-study jobs after Marx told them they… — Kathy Cooperman Copy Share Image
The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place. With this… — John Farrar Copy Share Image
After working with many nutritionists, reading books, and practicing trial and error on my own body, I have finally found a way… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
Poppy was now almost well. She still slept more than usual, but when she wasn't sleeping she tromped around the doctor's house… — Jeanne DuPrau Copy Share Image
Since 1966, hundreds of books have been published that follow murderers along their paths of destruction. Every serial killer, it seems, now… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Never love someone whom you think you need to mend – or who makes you feel like you should be mended. There… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“It comes back to the question, whom are you writing for? Who are the readers you want? Who are the people you… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
I think everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. Everyone has read the book and watched the… — Charlie Rowe Copy Share Image
For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
Expressing your thoughts and feelings to someone else is not as simple as writing it in a book. It takes courage. — Wazim Shaw Copy Share Image
Afterwards, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
I contend that no book figured more prominently than the Bible in the political thought of these patriots we call the founders. — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image