A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming. — Melody Carlson Copy Share Image
In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other?” — Peggy Kopman-Owens Copy Share Image
To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You must think about building a 'granth-mandir' in your village. Why is your village lacking such a 'granth-mandir'? Start with 50 books...100 books. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
All my journalism, all my books are first person, and it's all memoir. Even when I'm writing about the oil spill in… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality. — Pieter Geyl Copy Share Image
I'm the world 'Guinness Book of Records' holder of 1,749 hugs in one hour. My arms fell off. — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise. — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
“Some of the best friends we have are books. Why? Well, they belong usually to our relaxed armchair hours. They come only… — Esther Baldwin York Copy Share Image
I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Funnily enough, the Federal Reserve produced comics about monetary policy, and there is a good comic book guide to microeconomics and macroeconomics… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
In 1976, I read a book by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and knew immediately that I, too, could write a historical romance. It… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“Inside the front flap of the book were handwritten names of the dozen or so people who had checked the book out… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
“By the transport of books, that which is most foreign becomes one’s familiar walks and avenues; while that which is most familiar… — M. T. Anderson Copy Share Image
Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn. — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Pages turn, chapters end...eventually you have to close the book. — Roberta Metalious Copy Share Image
Books like Twilight are what you get when you let women out of the kitchen. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
“I never met or read about a great one who felt personally unfulfilled...” — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
Love is only a chapter in a guy's life but to a girl, it's the whole book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image