POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in. — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Books don't only furnish a room: they also make the best holiday gifts. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and… — Swami Achuthananda Copy Share Image
'The Infinities' is a shortish book but densely loaded with Nabokovian slyness, gorgeous imagery, and disturbing insights into what it means to… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
I liked climbing trees and could often be found up one reading a book. I played games with Dad and drew maps… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.” — Phindiwe Nkosi Copy Share Image
“As we suggested near the beginning of this book, if morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world.” — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Shoemaker Book the Second—the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I… — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
“He pictures the evening he might have spent, snugly at home, fixing the food he has bought, then lying down on the… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books… — Gavyn Davies Copy Share Image
You know, this technology that we have, and the Internet and Twitter and Facebook - I get so many of those emails… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
“For these reasons, as soon as my age permitted me to pass from under the control of my instructors, I entirely abandoned… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
"The diary, "My diary. Little Ginny's been writing in it for months and months, telling me all her pitiful worries and woes… — Tom Riddle Copy Share Image
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“There would be a center table, with books of a tranquil sort on it. . .” — Mark Twain Following the Equator Copy Share Image
You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“When I read I get lost into the book my mind is set into the setting." - Kate” — Kate Copy Share Image
A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books. — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life. — George Whitman Copy Share Image
