One of my favorite books is 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' by George Orwell, and 'Catcher in the Rye,' obviously, is a big influence and… — Hozier Copy Share Image
I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.” — Manoj Arora Copy Share Image
Especially since having children, a lot of the time if you ask me, 'Have you read that book?' the answer would be… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
It's a very powerful, emotional thing to read a book, and to reduce it to a series of questions in a test… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“You're such a bookworm," Fenn said, shaking his head as he counted the books in my hand. "No," I corrected "I just… — Candace Knoebel Copy Share Image
It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history. — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
Actresses cannot have any inhibitions while portraying bold characters. It is something that we learn on the first page of the book… — Jacqueline Fernandez Copy Share Image
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“He spent two years in the extermination camp at Auschwitz. According to his own reluctant account, he came this close to going… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
Books are great, but travel is the greatest teacher. If you have a choice, choose to travel. Not everywhere you go will… — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
There were, like, 20 of [Jackie Kennedy's biographies], which was interesting because they are not exactly high literature - they are pulpy.But… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
“The precise metaphysical procedures by which a book goes about writing another book need not concern us here. Suffice to say that… — James K. Morrow Copy Share Image
The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers. I'd say I learned more from… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“She'd been an actress, an artist's model, once or twice a kept woman, through all a voracious reader.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties. — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“It's heartbreaking when you love a book that fails. And it always seems to happen to the nicest authors.” — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“psychologist Wendy Mogel, best-selling author of The Blessing of a Skinned Knee and The Blessing of a B Minus,” — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share Image
When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Thinking about all the authors I love who wrote flawed books. You authors are such an enigma to me. Why do I… — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
I buy a lot of books I've found via the Internet, whose existences I'd otherwise never have known about. — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character. — Matt LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“We must connect students to books that force them to pay attention, to think and wonder, to imagine and believe, and then… — Peggy Kittle Copy Share Image
For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large… — Beryl Bainbridge Copy Share Image
Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay… — Jerome Robbins Copy Share Image
You can't really give away anything in your book ... should be exciting, it's my life, and I'm a cool and exciting guy. — Usain Bolt Copy Share Image
“I devoured the books because they were the rays of light peeking out from the doorframe, and perhaps past that door there… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“People say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes a mighty quotation is worth more than a thousand pictures.” — Jakub Marian Copy Share Image
“A good poem doesn't need to rhyme or have fancy words. It needs to touch the reader, hug them when arms cannot… — Goldie Nanwani Copy Share Image
What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Well — when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures — all these little stars That shake out… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
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