There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty. — Walter Inglis Anderson Copy Share Image
I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me. — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything I do is under scrutiny. And one of the things different, I think, about me is that my life has been… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty. — Nigel Barker Copy Share Image
I think of books as like a life raft. They save us from mundanity, they draw us to a poetic, multi-faceted world.… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective. — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
“She‘d never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I do think novels are overlooked. I did write one some years ago that I think is quite good, called 'The End… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
I keep a composition book with me at all times to write rhymes, to write down ideas, write down my thoughts, you… — Cordae Copy Share Image
The main advantage of being a reviewer is that you read a lot. A lot of books get sent to you, and… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“I learned that the book was Then Again, Maybe I Won’t, which, along with other books by the same author, Judy Blume,… — Shulem Deen Copy Share Image
Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“[SF] was a commercial genre born in the old adventure pulp magazines of the first third of the twentieth century, aimed primarily… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
“My blissful childhood was shattered without warning when I was about ten years old. One day, my father told me that he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We've been shooting the last two weeks with a lot of vampires. I don't want to give away too much, but if… — Peter Facinelli Copy Share Image
What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction. — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
“The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
Do not waste your time on light, weak, milktoast ministries and books — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books. — Morris Chestnut Copy Share Image
A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The reading of great books awaken and brightens the light of my soul.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
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