Pain is the body's way of telling the brain it's in trouble. Similarly, confusion is the brain's way of telling the body,… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed. — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
“And whoever turns himself away from remembrance of the Beneficent, We appoint for him a devil so he is his associate.” — Compton Gage Copy Share Image
Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mind is like a book. closed to people and full of words that dont want to be read. — Kezz Marrow Copy Share Image
We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do. — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
Your response to literature is to do with maturity; if you don't respond to a book or a poem when you are… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
“Pleasure demands constant and repeated stimulation to be felt by the common mind. If it is a book, one must finish one… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
I think a book-length poem stands about as good a chance as a collection of individual poems in reaching its field of… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
We're always on the search for a novel or a source or an existing screenplay, or writing something ourselves that turns us… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
“...everyone must know that the Jews have acquired a working control of all the media of communication: the press, the radio, the… — Ralph Perier Copy Share Image
After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. I… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“The words were before him, and yet I thought he wasn't reading them from the paper, but from the pages of his… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I am particularly wary of authors who put themselves on the cover of their own book. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging. — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“You know I always say that a healthy appetite for books leads to a girl with more than looks.” — Rachel Coker Copy Share Image
I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it. — Dick Bruna Copy Share Image
“Want to get your kids to read more? Try making books easily accessible. Put them where kids can easily reach and don't… — Melanie Kirk Copy Share Image
When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers. — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
“Reread that Bronte book all you want, but Jane Eyre's never going to get gender-reassignment surgery or train to become a kick-ass… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone. — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message. — Les Parrott Copy Share Image
