People like the Bosch books because they like Harry Bosch, not because the plots are fantastic. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“graffiti in the stall read: CALL DANA FOR BLOW. Colin wondered whether Dana provided fellatio or cocaine,” — John Green Copy Share Image
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The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
“Any good, persistent, business-minded, prolific writer can succeed if they keep writing and moving forward. For the modern author, that’s excellent news.” — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books. — Zoe Wanamaker Copy Share Image
I actually didn't do any writing of music while I was locked up. I wrote a book, but I didn't do any… — Da Brat Copy Share Image
Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my… — Nigel Dennis Copy Share Image
“Where do we go from here? Would books help us?" "Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
People like Pete Peterson, the former secretary of commerce and Blackstone and titan of Wall Street, etc., has been writing books for… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I've always been a homemaker, like, I like creating spaces. Even if I stay in a hotel, I'll unpack, I'll put my… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
It may well be feared, that there is not enough Biblereading among us. It is not sufficient to have the Book. We… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
You are the author of your own story , so use your own pen with beautiful colors ... — Jhoejhuejhue Copy Share Image
I want my music to be treated as a book or a movie. It's not about the one single: it's about the… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
My experience is, I do a table reading, and it's literally like it's written in colossal neon lights what's wrong with the… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I'm just happy to have some American readers - enough that it's a viable proposition for my books to appear there. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Time is of no account with great thoughts. They are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author's minds,… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“If it is possible to be homesick for the world, even places one has never been and knows one will never see,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat. — Dennis Weaver Copy Share Image
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I feel like it's impossible to please the hardcore comic book fans, because they'll never be happy no matter what you do. — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
“It's not the books by Stephen King that I read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .” — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
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“Good books to not invite unanimity. They invite discord, mayhem, knife fights, blood feuds.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
“A Natural History of the Senses, author Diane Ackerman says, “The brain is a good stagehand. It gets on with its work… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
“Girl in the White Dress is my book. It is currently linked to another author's profile. So if you have read the… — Nikki Walker Copy Share Image
The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
What did a person need to survive? Food. Water. Shelter. Warmth in cold weather. And something else... books. — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV any more. — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
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