A child deserves love, affection, the chance to just play and do nothing, to sit under a tree, read a book, dream… — Sean Hepburn Ferrer Copy Share Image
A Trump presidency feels as if we've crawled between the covers of a really crummy book. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Love is like a book in the beggining it's simple middle it's complicated and the ending is everlasting — Dustin Barbadillo-aton Copy Share Image
If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
After starting as a journalist for newspapers and magazines, I began to write books and had success with a novel and four… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
The importance of truth in books are just not want to see the false world the mirror of truth — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a… — Dennis Green Copy Share Image
I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“He placed this book in my grandmother's hands, looked at her entreatingly, and said, with an earnestness which I shall never forget,… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A new chapter in my Book of Life I will do my best to colour each page with love, happiness, presence, compassion… — Babloo Copy Share Image
There's something about the air and the sky and the atmosphere in the South of France that must be very conducive to… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
“I’d like to call him Bitner,” she said, as though she’d contemplated it long and hard. “Bitner?” “I read it in one… — K.P. Ambroziak Copy Share Image
I didn't know enough as a writer to understand why I needed to do this, but I understood in a very gut… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter?' — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in… — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people that goes into the movies that are based off of books going, 'I know what this… — Megan Hilty Copy Share Image
“They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is a hunger in this digital age to hear authors together, to participate in programs, to just be in a place,… — Carla Hayden Copy Share Image
When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books. — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
“What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so happy to live in” — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Think of these books as doors. Open them and let their ideas stir your mind. Study them and they become weapons.” — Anna K. Lane Copy Share Image
No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets. — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
There is a big difference between the books that men make and the book that makes men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You can't make someone a Soul Mate...either they are or they're not."-Serena Jade author of Charismatic Connection: The Authentic Soul Mate Experience” — Serena Jade Copy Share Image
I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
“He was sitting on a bench with his briefcase open and was surrounded by enough product literature to keep a paper-recycling factory… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A long time ago, I had an idea to make a book for preschoolers who had older siblings who were going to… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Hitler was an avid reader, a passion that stayed with him through all the phases of his career. — Volker Ullrich Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet. — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
“[Carlos] Ruiz Zafon holds dear the belief that when you read a book, you take a holiday in the brain of the… — Helen Pitts Copy Share Image
“My work comprises one vast book like Proust's except that my remembrances are written on the run instead of afterwards in a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“You know the old bit," he said. "You're on a deserted island. You can have five books. Which do you choose? I… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image