Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books. — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“Five years from today, you will be the same person that you are today, except for the books you read and the… — Charlie "Tremendous" Jones Copy Share Image
“Mark Twain’s words: Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” — Alan Russell Copy Share Image
“For life is practically a battle. To all intents and purposes a battle. Except for a few lucky fellows who can read… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I sat there for several moments, trying to decide how best I should respond. None of the advice I'd gotten from the… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all because two… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase… — Patricia Polacco Copy Share Image
A writer who has published as many books as I have has developed, of necessity, a hide like a rhino's, while inside… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
“She read every author she could get her hands on who wrote a strong female protagonist who triumphed in the end.” — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later. — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.” — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Professor and author Dr. Calvin Miller writes this word of caution: “Remember anything more important than God to you, is god to… — Diane Moody Copy Share Image
I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What’s the Nephilim motto again?” “ ‘We are dust and shadows,’ ” said Ty, not looking up from his book. “Some of us are… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again. -… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
What I realized is that my interest in literature has more deeply structured my practice than I thought. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hopefully, reading and being around great literature inspires me to write songs, but I'm not sure about that. — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I had access to books, and I could read... but that more foundational, basic historical awareness, I didn't have any of that. — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
This book is dedicated to the rule breakers, the troublemakers, and the revolutionaries. Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
“Books feel more intimate. And the people who go out of their way to read your writings, are initially more open to… — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature. — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
“You could fill a book with all the things you don't know,girl. In fact-I think someone may have already written it.But that's… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
The original theme of 'Beauty and the Beast' is don't judge a book by its cover. Love what's inside. — Jay Ryan Copy Share Image
“I came to realize that there is a special reason for me to be alive; my musings, my books, and my legacy.” — Ingrid Holm-Garibay Copy Share Image
