Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice. — Fiona Wood Copy Share Image
Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice. — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
I wasn't really a big comic book guy, growing up. I watched cartoons, but the choices were a whole heck of a… — Adrian Pasdar Copy Share Image
In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive. — Norma McCorvey Copy Share Image
“To Love and to those who bear it! --Harry Livingson from: The Thief, Book Two of The Donkey and the Wall trilogy” — J.L. Lawson Copy Share Image
“I don't remember who spoke first, but I do recall the first words between us: "How often we meet among old books!"… — Ōgai Mori Copy Share Image
“You can tell I don't like this book, because I drew in it. And that's better than anything else that's in this… — Dan Bergstein Copy Share Image
“it seems to me that one of the truths about history that needs to be made clear to a student or to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“People slip spontaneously into moments of concentration all the time—while reading a book, exercising, playing chess, or creating art. A yogi seeks… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
I'm the classic example of alienation: I grew up in a middle-class household without art or books. I was going to be… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
I think sometimes it's sort of easier to be playing a role based on a real person because there's quite often a… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
“...Orlando, to whom fortune had given every gift--plate, linen, houses, men-servants, carpets, beds in profusion--had only to open a book for the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“So I recommend reading literature, such as the inspiring biography of Anwar Sadat, In Search of Identity, and seeing movies like Chariots… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
It's much more difficult to make an unbound book than a bound book, because the factories aren't set up to make an… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
“All literature and popular art contain themes that resonate with the audience.” — Daniel Lambert Copy Share Image
almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
You can't learn mental fortitude in a book. Those things are earned, not learned. — Caleb Plant Copy Share Image
The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives. — Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks Copy Share Image
“But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Perhaps there is some secret homing device in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” — Juliet Ashton Copy Share Image
“My favorite genre is Beautifully Written Books of Any Genre. Could we make that a genre?” — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I did not read Gone with the Wind, although I've seen the movie, and I read every book on Margaret Mitchell. — Shannen Doherty Copy Share Image
As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Life is like one big book so take your time to understand it because every chapter has many meanings and lessons to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A religion is not contained in a single book; there's something religious in almost any book.” — John A. Buehrens Copy Share Image
When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
It was genuinely eye-opening for me to read Tolstoy or Steinbeck or Colette for the first time and to feel as though… — Diane Drake Copy Share Image
[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“A novel! Why do you say this won't liberate anyone? Where does any man go to be free, whether he is poor… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I started re-reading 'Harry Potter' just to throw myself back into my childhood. I forgot how awesome the books are. — Sam Mikulak Copy Share Image
“When adults read a book, they're two feet away; when children read it, they're right inside it.” — Peggy Rathmann Copy Share Image
I think characters are going to be, if not a reflection of the author, at least some refraction of some part of… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
If you are not using your smile, you're like someone with a million dollars in the bank and no check book — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“I urge you to read what you can, when you can, while you can, and enjoy each page as if it were… — Ken Kilner Copy Share Image
On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead. — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image