The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Something rubs off from everything you read, observe, and tinker with. — R. F. Delderfield Copy Share Image
If you read angry political blogs, substitute Obama with my daddy and you'll usually learn a lot about the author. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
“Songs are just novels that get to the point quicker. Though I don't imagine that Ke$ha's book would be clean YA...” — Inda Herwood Copy Share Image
“You know I always say that a healthy appetite for books leads to a girl with more than looks.” — Rachel Coker Copy Share Image
Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging. — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“The words were before him, and yet I thought he wasn't reading them from the paper, but from the pages of his… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Anyhow, I had found something out about an unknown privation, and I realized how a general love or craving, before it is… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“It is said memorizing two letters is better than listening to two loads [of books]; moreover, comprehending two letters is better than… — Burhan al-Din Al-Zarnuji Copy Share Image
“You say you're a writer but you're depressed. Not an excuse; write from there. Write some depressing sh*t. Believe me. You will… — Stanley Christopher Copy Share Image
Juanita Rose Violini's Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible and the Ignored is delightfully odd, wonderfully weird, and anything but normal. Filled… — Jeff Belanger Copy Share Image
Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of… — Tim Cope Copy Share Image
What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen. — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
No CEO examining books today understands what the hell is going on. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“A good book can make you laugh but only a great book can make you cry” — Rockerlulu Copy Share Image
“The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology.” — Michael Findley Copy Share Image
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