But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm pretty much an open book. I am a fanatic golfer and golf nut. If I have three free hours any day,… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
One of my friends who writes novels says that once the book is published, it's a separate thing from you; it becomes… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I educated myself, and it made me feel good. I went to museums. I read books. I did all the things, pretty… — Stephanie Seymour Copy Share Image
“for the love of all that is hot and steamy, I don’t want any bitching about the length of the book, the… — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Will you ever let me go, Estin?” she asked eventually. Estin snorted and closed the book. “I let you go a little… — Jim Galford Copy Share Image
“I someties think I want to write a book of my life So that when I meet you - or anyone new… — Stephanie Butland Copy Share Image
It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Lempriere's Bibliotecha Classica?" she said, reading the title. She looked up at him, her eyes wide. "How did you know?" He shrugged,… — Megan Frampton Copy Share Image
I just LOVE these quotes. Inspiring read as always. Loved the last two points about slowing down and enjoying the small things.… — ZhatsPrincess Copy Share Image
If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Every once in awhile you find a novel so magical that there is no escaping its spell. The Night Circus is one… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
“I feel so much better having this book sitting on my cookbook shelf, just to help balance out the butter and cream… — ChiWei Ranck Copy Share Image
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Is not he? I had him along for his books and potions, and kept him for his character. Profundities of disgruntled sentiments,… — Michelle Franklin Copy Share Image
“If you learn only one thing from this book, let it be that: that an Indian man 2,600 years ago came up… — Dominique Francon Copy Share Image
“Assessment should not be about defining a reader but about piecing together information to help us design classroom experiences so we can… — Clare Landrigan Copy Share Image
“I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
It's the best motivation to have a particular beloved reader in mind! Because you feel this urgency that you really want somebody… — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
“The endorsements on books aren’t entirely impartial. Unbeknownst to the average reader, blurbs are more often than not from the writer’s best… — Rachel Donadio Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I was very fond of strange stories when I was a child. In my village-school days, I used to buy stealthily popular… — Wu Cheng'en Copy Share Image
“What would you do if you were a goddess, Cotswold?" Her maid, who had been pulling Eleanor's covers up the bed, stilled… — Megan Frampton Copy Share Image
“We block our conscious wants with beliefs. It's important to find them, with a psychologist, tarot, a book, whatever. That's how you… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“...And as if she had opened a hidden door, I felt the patterned surface break and give way, and the words let… — Julie Schumacher Copy Share Image
“This is a thousand monkeys working at a thousand typewriters. Soon they'll have written the greatest novel known to man. Lets se,… — C. Montgomery Burns Copy Share Image
“I read in a book that the stars can take you anywhere. I’ve never wanted to be an astronaut because of the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
For the true bookworm it is sometimes hard to distinguish between what one has experienced and what one has read. We know… — Laura Furman Copy Share Image
“books of my fellow Living History trippers. Or at least get me out of their bad ones. Now to come up with… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the… — Rachel Simon Copy Share Image
To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
This is a giant undertaking, but I consider this a personal film. It's my film of a lifetime. I read the book… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
“This was real life, not a book. And in real life, people met, nothing happened, and you went home. Or they went… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
