Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo. — Betty White Copy Share Image
I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape. — Benny Green Copy Share Image
When I first started out writing the 'Darkness' books, there was, at least in my mind, a certain sort of rulebook we… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I always dreamed about climbing mountains. I read every book about it. I formulated this plan to… — John Layfield Copy Share Image
“So he earns your undying love by reading a book under a tree?" Cole said dryly. "Why didn't I ever try that… — Brodi Ashton Copy Share Image
A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened. — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I lost myself immediately in one of the books, only emerging when the phone rang. “Dashiell?” my father intoned. As if someone… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are… — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn Copy Share Image
Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[People in 1600s] didn't have many books. They would have been staggered by the personal libraries we have today, because books back… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
The Gadianton Robbers from the Book of Mormon are loose among us. The King-men, and women, are running our government. And, worst… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
“You can tell you're reading a really good book when you forget all about everything else and know you'll die if you… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels! — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
“morigu the desacration and morigu the dead great books but series is unfinished” — Mark C. Perry Copy Share Image
“The poem was called “Goblin Market,” and the book whose proof pages were on the desk was titled Goblin Market and Other… — Tim Powers Copy Share Image
Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through. — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Really interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don't fall asleep. — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now… — Eli Wallach Copy Share Image
I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
I've read Flowers in the Attic and The Other Side of Midnight and Go Ask Alice and I don't want to read… — Rebecca Godfrey Copy Share Image
Picture books are more difficult for me because it is telling a huge story in the least amount of words. — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
MOVE ON. It is just a chapter in the past, but don't close the book - just turn the pages. :) — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I don't like stories that are too neat and too resolved. I think resolutions can be deadening for the reader. — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
It seems like the darker the books are, the nicer the person is. People say it's the romance writers you've got to… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“A great book is the one you dive in and swim until there is no air left, but you keep swimming, forgetting… — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'Harry Potter' because it's like lightning… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature. — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years… — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows. — Nancy Hale Copy Share Image
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