“A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“On books and friends I spend my money; For stones and bricks I haven't any.” — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me. — Jonathan Taylor Thomas Copy Share Image
While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
With every literary genre or form come some conventional expectations that the biblical authors either follow or deviate from. — Craig Blomberg Copy Share Image
There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Do you know how many times I've read "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" to this kid? That is one fucked-up… — Huntley Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“so, what happened next will have to go down in my book of Bad Decisions, planted firmly in the chapter entitled, I… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
“His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, if a writer really gets her hooks into me, I'll want to read interviews, or listen to an interview, or read… — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
“Several serious medical studies and entire referenced books show that lowering cholesterol with medications did NOT reduce the number of deaths by… — Dr. Sherry Rogers Copy Share Image
“She wrote me a letter (Joan,1941) asking,"How can I read it?,Its so hard." I told her to start at the beginning and… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Canada was for me very much Sweden, you know? Very much open people, that they read books, they go see films. I… — Michael Nyqvist Copy Share Image
“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The history of psychiatry and its treatments can be a contentious issue in our society, so much so that when you write… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books. — James MacArthur 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