Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“I know how you feel about me. I feel the same way. You never have to worry that you don't tell me… — Samantha Young Copy Share Image
How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or… — John Banville Copy Share Image
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy. — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another. — John Gay Copy Share Image
“In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The best novel I wrote was one called 'Crusoe's Daughter,' which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that.… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
The 'inquests' which resulted in the compilation of the Domesday Book made a vivid and unfavorable impression on the country. A similar… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The Fae book was definitely filled with the same stories as hers, but this one was filled with picture after picture of… — Chanda Hahn Copy Share Image
“For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“If after reading this book you come to my home and brutally murder me, I do not blame you.” — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
“The fact that at the moment the distinction is being made, a young adult, as opposed to an adult, is the one… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
As to the origin of civil Societies or Governments; the Author of our Being, has given Man a Nature to be fitted… — Abraham J. Williams Copy Share Image
I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw… — Sidney Altman Copy Share Image
I read books when I have time. I probably spend a third of the time watching TV, and the rest of it… — Mark Mendoza Copy Share Image
“...The book of the hours - Tres Riche Heures - what did it matter when I had you?...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
My pictures are not that interesting, nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts; my book is more like… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
“The more “compassionate love”—warmth, affection, and connection—employees feel at work, the better they do their jobs, say two authors who present new… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Throughout this book, we've been evangelizing simplicity, but ironically, the practice of simplicity is not simple. It is easy to build a… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
“If you can't even change the way you read. How can you change the way you think..” — Umang joshi Copy Share Image
Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“No man has the right to bring up children without surrounding them with books.” — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The prevailing subtext of every dating book is that beautiful women are surpassingly obtainable, so long as you get over the intimidation… — Sean Evans Copy Share Image
All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances. — Henry Abbey Copy Share Image
“But don’t you think there some stories that are more alive than that? When you put certain books back on the shelf,… — Kristin Kladstrup Copy Share Image
Teens are like books hard to read but if you look at them close enough you would understand them really well. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They… — Barbara W Tuchman Copy Share Image
