If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you… — Jupiter Hammon Copy Share Image
I don't condemn and I don't convert. I've been searching through books and bibles to find what this life is worth, and… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
“The book covers are a crucial part of my work - personally speaking. Particularly because, I cannot write a single word of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Basically all the art we know in history books, the business model for that art was not unit sales. It was patronage.… — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was… — Gene Tunney Copy Share Image
“She was too tired to feel anything more, she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“So glad of this as they I cannot be, Who are surprised withal; but my rejoicing At nothing can be more. I'll… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The Novelist As Teacher”: “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“But to continue the story of my professional experiences. I made one pound ten and six by my first review; and I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Indeed, upon learning of a 1931 book entitled One Hundred Authors Against Einstein,†† he responded that if he were wrong, then only… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“People are going to think I'm morbid, loving all these sad books. I actually don't mind a happy ending in a novel—certainly,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
“Phased retirement can take many different forms. And it is truly changing the way people live their lives in their older years.… — Catherine Allen Copy Share Image
“If you're looking for fine art or literature, you might want to read some stuff written by the Greeks. Because to create… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“To speak in a spiritual sense is to create but to write is to fix an ephemeral aspect of reality such as… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
Man, that's the only kind of book I like one that's so real you want to find out everything there is… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Books did not need to be beautiful back in the Fifties, because nothing else was beautiful back then. Books were simply there:… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
“The Six was everything that a book club book should be: short at two hundred pages, highbrow because it dealt with English… — Kathy Cooperman Copy Share Image
“You make me love books and the words inside them, because they talk about you. I know they do, they tell me… — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
“But as my father told him, and as anyone who reads regularly might agree, the only thing that has to be similar… — Alice Ozma Copy Share Image
The subject of the novel is reality liberated from soul. The reader in complete independence presented with a structured process:let him evaluate… — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
“I spent the afternoon in a bookstore. There were no books in it. None had been printed for nearly half a century.… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“One should watch a film adaptation of a favorite book only after considering , very carefully, the fact that the casting of… — Peter Mendelsund Copy Share Image
I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an efficient way… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book… — Dan Poynter Copy Share Image
The first doorway (or chakra) is what I call in the book, the Doorway of Safety. This doorway relates to feeling safe… — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
I read 'The Young Landlords' and felt almost a chemical change. What I realized while reading that book was that I could… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
"And they lived happily ever after" is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It's tragic because it's falsehood. It is… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
“We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about which posterity will ask, "But how… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Had she read any good books lately? At all? She could tell him that she was going to take out a subscription… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
I think the graphic novel form works, in practice, a lot differently from watching a movie. You can put it down and… — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
“Some people buried their fears in food, she knew, and some in booze, and some in planning elaborate engagements and weddings and… — Jenny Colgan Copy Share Image
I'm a people person, very approachable. I go out every night, tons of functions. I love all facets of this industry... Music,… — Guy Oseary Copy Share Image
The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
