“One of my favorite quotes comes from author Alice Walker, who observed, “The most common way people give up their power is… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I choose Hosea. Oh, there's no book of the Bible which more beautifully and more painfully demonstrates how very much God loves… — Jennifer Rothschild Copy Share Image
When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. — David Eddings Copy Share Image
Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
That book is good Which puts me in a working mood. Unless to Thought be added Will Apollo is an imbecile. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“[Donald] Keene observed [in a book entitled The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, 1988] that the Japanese sense of beauty has long sharply… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“…one of those long, romantic novels, six hundred and fifty pages of small print, translated from French or German or Hungarian or… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“gazing down at the black water remembering all the stories of women who had thrown themselves into it. They'd done it for… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Whether the underlying cause of your dependency is a chemical imbalance, unresolved events from the past, beliefs you hold that are inconsistent… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“The books beside my bed are like the expensive, and suspiciously unsullied, pair of running shoes in the cupboard: an aspiration, and… — Richard Lloyd Parry Copy Share Image
Islamic myths are mostly actually plagiarized from the Christian ones, both biblically and in terms of modern creationism. If you read Islamic… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People often ask authors where their ideas come from, and often authors say they don't know. But I do know about this… — Sam McBratney Copy Share Image
“I have a fear of dying partway through a book—of never knowing the ending. It’s silly, I know, but it makes me… — Steve Robinson Copy Share Image
“It is with the common book that most readers will spend their head-tilted hours.” — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
“I'd stop the world from spinning for you." That silly line oddly touched me. "I love you." "Liked that one, did you.” — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft. — Bernie Taupin Copy Share Image
“My quotes are being used in other authors creations. To be recognized while I'm alive has surpassed my expectations” — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“Reading books doesn't make you smarter. Reading smart books makes you smarter. Reading dumb books makes you dumber.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
BTW A 24 week old embryo is not a human being. You're not a human being until you're in my phone book. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, it will help ensure that more of what you like to read will be written. Thank you.” — Dana Stabenow Copy Share Image
“As soon as I take down her book and open it...My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.” — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me! — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I'd rather read than watch a movie. It gives me new ways to approach my delivery, gives me a new vocabulary. — Rich Homie Quan Copy Share Image
“But books feel real. Surely they must seem more real to you than anyone. They can hurt you. They can break your… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I got a dog and am trying to elevate. I'm working out, eating healthier, reading books. Making 'Make it Out Alive' is… — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I stared into her cold, blue eyes and knew I'd just met the kind of girl books are written about. There was… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture. — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
“Around nine thirty, but Natalie was still reading a book on her Kindle when I fell asleep thirty minutes later.” — T.R. Ragan Copy Share Image
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