There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world. — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
Books make great gifts because they're something you love that you can share. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint… — Wallace Tripp Copy Share Image
I think that if you really love a book, there's nothing nicer than to have a first edition of it. — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author; usually only one. — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Beneath the nice book cover, camera angles, format of the page, size of the canvas, sound of the song – was someone… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
“I think she was in a book club for a while, but she quit when they stopped talking about the books and… — Kathryn Davis Copy Share Image
“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch,… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
“Then I hear Willard on the sidelines: “Are we supposed to keep pretending they’re actually talking about the book?” “Wait,” Annie responds,… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say,… — Wendi McLendon-Covey Copy Share Image
“What if, by contrast, you are more a user of intangible assets: say, the Amazon warehouse, using the knowledge of the routing… — Jonathan Haskel Copy Share Image
The reason I'm writing funny books is that I wish there were more. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
ATLANTA NIGHTS is sure to please the reader who enjoys this sort of thing. — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“The history of literature is very far from being one of simple progress.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things to do with my children is to read to them. — Elizabeth Vargas Copy Share Image
Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“You need to read some Agatha Christie, man. Why? Am I being punished?” — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
