“Are you New World or Old?' 'Sounds like a novel by Henry James.' 'Never read him.' 'Don't. But that was his question… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“If you are ever angry at him, threaten to do something to one of his books, as calling him Fred does nothing.” — Sarah Holman Copy Share Image
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The Kindle app runs on iPads, BlackBerry, and Android devices, so you can read your books wherever you want; with Apple, you're… — Daniel Lyons Copy Share Image
“Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity.” — Donald J. Bingle Copy Share Image
Hinduism especially - in the absence of codified rituals or a book of rules to circumscribe it - has always functioned as… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
It is the power of words and books - explaining and dramatizing great ideas and articulating high ideals - that is the… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
“She had liked once to think of herself as passionate, in love with her books, drunk on history, enamored of the wide… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
“daughter of the past who walked in all wide-eyed and exhaling like she’d finally found what she was looking for. It was… — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
“What should one do to get rid of ignorance? Attain Gnan (Knowledge of the Self). Use tools such as books and scriptures… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any... on how… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
The atonement chapter [from the book Saving Calvinism] shows how there are real riches in Reformed theology that most Christians today have… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
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I'm an open book. People seem to like people that are very open - accepting, and not rude. — Cupcakke Copy Share Image
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“So I separated all my books into stacks: best friends, old friends, classic friends, new friends, and casual acquaintances. ” — Laura Jensen Walker Copy Share Image
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True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“If you steal any of the books from the library, I will know, and you'll be sorry. Jessamine Lovelace.” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of… — Frank Shorter Copy Share Image
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
A book for cheap success will still be expensive because the way to success is always costly. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
“From your parents you learn love & laughter & how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's. — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
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