“A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“- If you could describe my son in 3 words, what would you say? - Sweet. Cute. Funny. - That could be… — Mary Papas Copy Share Image
I think that people think that since I literally wrote the book on how to love yourself that I love myself all… — Tess Holliday Copy Share Image
I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake. — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
If we have to sum up the Book of Revelation in one phrase, it would be, 'Jesus wins.' — Jud Wilhite Copy Share Image
We've been moving around so much that I have a Tupperware container full of my books. Some people have a blanky; I've… — Hilarie Burton Copy Share Image
“That's the pleasure and challenge of reading great novels; you get to see yourself as others see you and you get to… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Stories are life," protested Pico. "Without them, books would be only paper and ink, with them they breathe, the reader is drawn… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
I like the idea of being involved in pictures that can entertain the entire family and can stimulate youngsters into looking at… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
To the question of writing at all we have sometimes been counselled to forget it, or rather the writing of books. What… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“I do not remember if it was the smell of the land, of the haystacks outside the barn, or the warm breath… — Cristiana Di Palma Copy Share Image
“Each Inspirational Messenger who was and has been acknowledged in the history books was done so because of the way they chose… — Emily Gowor Copy Share Image
“Chaucer's world in The Canterbury Tales brings together, for the first time, a diversity of characters, social levels, attitudes, and ways of… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“But the essence of a place, the part of it that picks you up and puts you down somewhere else, cannot be… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
The chance to spend a week with Pete Newell is like a student of literature getting to spend a week with Hemingway… — Rick Carlisle Copy Share Image
Books for children get into schools. Committed teachers use books like mine alongside films, non-fiction and fiction to help children investigate and… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Literature is not an instruction manual. For obvious reasons, this is rarely noted in fiction.” — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
I had always been a reader and a skeptic, so when I was old enough to break away from organized religion, it… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
Nonfiction, to me, feels like an argument, whereas a novel is like a series of questions. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
The holy book tells us the truth will set us free but in this world I know different. — Lucky Dube Copy Share Image
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
One day at my grandmother's house, I discovered 'The Secret Garden' and read it. This was the first book I found entirely… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“A newspaper that wishes to make its fortune should never waste its columns and weary its readers by praising anything.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“This is my book, and in my book my soul With its two woven threads of joy and pain, And both were… — Alfred B. Douglas Copy Share Image
Understanding the single-line quote is like comprehending the bulky book with its title only and correctly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say, 'Wow, I never thought of it like that… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“When I wiped you from the book of memory, I did not know I was striking out half my life” — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
Although I wrote a book about infidelity around the world, I ended up concluding that fidelity is quite a good idea. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“Real readers poison themselves with words. They close each book as though climbing, reborn, from a tomb.” — David Gordon Copy Share Image
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I've never set a book in Europe. I've lived in Europe three times, but somehow or other it wasn't the experience that… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
I give people 'If You Came Softly' when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
