Just as you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, don't judge people by their clothes. — Kirron Kher Copy Share Image
I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
You can't have a dream come true if you don't have a dream. You can't write a book if you don't write. — Kwame Alexander Copy Share Image
“Don't be the forgotten voice in an unwritten book. Ikke bli den glemte stemmen i en uskreven bok.” — Atle Jarnæs Lerøy Copy Share Image
My partner doesn't read. He's not illiterate - he just chooses not to read - and I love reading. I'm obsessed with… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the… — Rupert Grint Copy Share Image
In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself. — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
“La sua logica è straordinariamente lucida e fredda e invariabilmente lo porta fuori strada. Ma all'improvviso interviene la poesia in lui a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
“In the continually shifting marketplace of ideas, religious concepts and speculations about our spiritual destiny, there is one book which stands apart… — Grant R. Jeffrey Copy Share Image
“Certainly, if money could have been raised upon the book, Robert Herrick would long ago have sacrificed that last possession: but the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
The author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense… — Garance Dore Copy Share Image
“In his book The Other Side of Eden, British anthropologist Hugh Brody translates this powerful Inuktitut word into English, describing it as… — Sheila Watt-Cloutier Copy Share Image
“When have I ever suggested you burn them? I am allowed to have opinions, aren’t I? And I don’t hate them—I don’t… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
Right now I'm singing along to books on tape. I typically pop in something like Stephen King's 'The Stand,' and I love… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I read science books, chemistry books, history books. I read that stuff for fun. — Rick Harrison Copy Share Image
...nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book... ... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the… — Carolyn Wheat Copy Share Image
All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby. — John Green Copy Share Image
“For under scrutiny you will find that even an open book can have a surprise scribbled in its margins.” — Violet Haberdasher Copy Share Image
For the price of a couple of Happy Meals, you can buy a digital textbook and stop your child from having to… — Osman Rashid Copy Share Image
A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960] ” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I now saw, with great dismay, that what I had been carrying all this time was not a bowl but a book.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book. — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
“There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities.” — Fran Veal Copy Share Image
“Just as all writers were beginners once, so were all novels. They all went through rough stages, even the ones by our… — Roz Morris Copy Share Image
I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“A sunny nature? A light heart? I have never been so insulted. Light-hearted is a short step from witless in my book.… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s. — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
“I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.” — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
“Literature is my Utopia...No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends” — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
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