I wanted to write a book for children about animals that would be factual, different, fun and varied. — Michaela Strachan Copy Share Image
“ Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas… — Jesse Lee Bennett Copy Share Image
If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I had these fashion history books that I really enjoyed looking at. I liked costumes and used to wear them to school… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
“I couldn't hear anything or anyone, there was only the sound of our sex and the smell of books.” — Juliet Gauvin Copy Share Image
Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
Even when I read a book, if the book leaves me the possibility of finding certain solutions or working on my own… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
One day I shall write a little book of conduct myself, and I shall call it Social Problems of the Unsociable. And… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Saul came into my room, prowling around and around, restless, and he saw the new notebook, and pounced on it. “Oh this… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“as Barbara Tuchman, author of Distant Mirror, put it, “clerical celibacy was a joke.” Despite the previous ban on clerical marriages, nuns,… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“My mother, who is a pianist and a fine artist, purchased a piano for me. Twice. This was back when I was… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to go and do something different. I'll just disappear and write a couple of books, and then go back… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island... — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“We believe in books. Somehow we want to make childhood better, and we believe that a book given at the right moment… — Ann Schlee Copy Share Image
When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
My life has been pretty unconventional. The publishers saw a story in it, and yes, my life has been put in a… — Harshvardhan Rane Copy Share Image
We go to a book as Narcissus went to the fountain, see ourselves therein, and are enamored — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually… — Phil Foglio Copy Share Image
“Why is someone only passionate about books if they're into literary books that win prizes? Why can't you be passionate about books… — Harriet Evans Copy Share Image
Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
“And then he did move, because my hardcover copy of Breaking Dawn whacked him full in the face, with all my vampiric… — Helen Keeble Copy Share Image
I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have written... have really in… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I know that it is not enough to be remembered for books and theories. One does not make a difference unless it… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
You wanna fight you do it on your own time, in a parking lot somewhere, not in a school, surrounded by books. — Danny Mcbride Copy Share Image
In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me,… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The first book advance I got was paid out in thirds. And over time, as I've had different deals, the advances get… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
“It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is… — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct. — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing. — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
