It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Girl in the White Dress is my book. It is currently linked to another author's profile. So if you have read the… — Nikki Walker Copy Share Image
“A Natural History of the Senses, author Diane Ackerman says, “The brain is a good stagehand. It gets on with its work… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about?… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I don't go to concerts much. I've heard everything. When I do go to movies, I walk out half the time. As… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
“...Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in… — Christian Lacroix Copy Share Image
“I can't believe how many students don't read. They want to be writers, but they haven't read anything at all. They have… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
“I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first… — Jay Allison Copy Share Image
“The essential criterion for running a bookstore is less "Do you like books?" than "Do you like people?" Ironically, we find that… — Wendy Welch Copy Share Image
William Waltz will take me through 'the buzz and clamor in a forest of hearts.' Adventures in the Lost Interiors of America… — James Tate Copy Share Image
“Inexperience people think that books will lead the one of intellect to understanding. But the ignoramus doesn't know that in these books… — Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī Copy Share Image
A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book.… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
“Yet it seemed to Bega that if she could continue to read, which had come so easily to her... then that would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it. — Ahmet Zappa Copy Share Image
“now that all writers everywhere are contractually obligated to blog and tweet all day long, who has time to work on a… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
A good book, or a good show leaves a lot of unanswered questions but makes you think. — Noah Schnapp Copy Share Image
Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story — Esther Freud Copy Share Image
“ Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth. ” — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use. — John Denham Copy Share Image
It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book. — Slick Rick Copy Share Image
I have a new book coming out, so I do movie, book, movie, book, movie, book, every place we go. — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
It's a challenge to turn a book series into a television series; you need to keep people on their toes, but you… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
“The fact of the matter is that readers and audiences are never blank slates: individuals see in a work whatever they need… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
I was fortunate that I was born in an era where comic books kind of grew up with me. — Samoa Joe Copy Share Image
Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Death is something we shy away from, except in literature or television, when we tend to stare right at it.” — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“My father from long habit took a book with him to the table and then, remembering my presence, furtively dropped it under… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
If there is a connection between Harry Potter and my new novel, it's my interest in characters. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done. — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
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