“On books and friends I spend my money; For stones and bricks I haven't any.” — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books. — James MacArthur Copy Share Image
Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals. — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
There will be great books. There will be great films. Sometimes, if we are lucky, the two will intersect. — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
“Every act of becoming conscious (it says here in this book) is an unnatural act” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Letters are, of course, quite special in my view, for when a reader has been sufficiently moved (or even perturbed) by a… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“You do not believe in the magic and power of this book only because you cannot comprehend that it is possible. The… — Madison Thorne Grey Copy Share Image
Will I switch to E-reading? I won't, mainly because I love the look and feel of books - particularly hardbacks. I love… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“While she eventually adjusts to the faded motivational posters featuring long-dead baby animals and the fifties-era reading books whose soporific effects have… — Myla Goldberg Copy Share Image
“For many years, I have been a vocal critic of religion, and I won’t ride the same hobbyhorse here. I hope that… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It's funny what [producer Richard Zanuck said about even though you can't quite place when the book or the story came into… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
In many ways we've become the Babylon of the modern era. We learned our lessons at the feet of Nebuchadnezzar himself. It's… — O. S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
FOAM OF THE DAZE is a novel like no other, a sexy, innocent, smart and sweet cartoon of a world which then… — Jim Krusoe Copy Share Image
Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level. — Rick Fox Copy Share Image
I think [Albert] Camus felt very solitary. You can see it in all his books. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Through the study of books one seeks God; by meditation one finds him. — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable. — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“Since when did you start plucking books off the children's shelf, Leona?” — Elizabeth Lynn Casey Copy Share Image
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