The books that I wrote in my late teens and 20s, the little love stories, they were right from the heart. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“Give up your holy books, and remember the Lord, you fool, and stop oppressing others so badly.” — Bhagat Kabir Copy Share Image
The power of literature does not lie in resonance with the particular but the way that the particular speaks to a broader,… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“Like something out of one of those special forces books, only the one he’s in is called Bravo Too Stupid.” — Mark Sennen Copy Share Image
At the age of 9, I read David Copperfield by Dickens. At 14, I read War and Peace by Tolstoy. They're both… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
What's the matter, you never do blow before? Sometimes your heart stop, it start up again. Read a book. -Mr. Chow — The Hangover 2 Copy Share Image
Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Enlightenment does not come by reading many books, obtaining multiple academic degrees, meditating and starving the body under an ancient tree or… — Prem Tihan Copy Share Image
Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
“I hate to be a nag, but you have got to read. Like most authors, I run creative writing workshops from time… — Sarah Harrison Copy Share Image
I have both experienced and witnessed a great deal of suffering in my life, and that has informed my art. I'm here… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
“Good libraries hold several millions of books: even if we read a book a day, we would read only 365 a year,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you're playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic book… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
A lot of people have made the valid point that if you don't believe the arts are a 'viable' job, or you… — Carrie Hope Fletcher Copy Share Image
A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Do you want to attend to this book or do you want to read by yourself?” The student responded, “Read by myself.” — Peter H. Johnston Copy Share Image
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The peace of great books be for you, Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages, Bleach of the light of years held… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
All politicians know that every 'temporary' political initiative promised as a short-term poultice stays on the books forever. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“All you need is one golden apple - a single apple that somebody else wants - and you have control. (Fateful Night,… — KR Hughes TL Burns Copy Share Image
“Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the… — Susannah Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Almost every name in my address book is crossed out. Two that aren’t may or may not still be alive. Another doesn’t… — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people;… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There are lots of authentic, moving characters in so-called systems novels, just as there are certainly deep structural ideas in some character-driven… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness. — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
For me, the whole process involves envisioning this Ghost World comic book in my head as I'm working. — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
“Of course his life could be found in the pages of a book; I had just begun to notice that the lives… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer. — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
How do you say 'bring me sausage and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?" "Look it up in the phrase… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
“The creeping sense that he might have seen him reading the book came up from the ground, but that was more anxiety… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
“He passed the time reading books on Zen Buddhism and playing basketball, where his ball-hogging style of play earned him the nickname… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
