“Sometimes the dustiest cover hides the best book. Sometimes the best cup is chipped.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas. — Patricia McCormick Copy Share Image
What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of… — Misha Collins Copy Share Image
“It is the first book, maybe the only book to talk about how the problem of climate change can be addressed in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is possible for YA heroines to go an entire book without discussing their love lives.” — Celine Kiernan Copy Share Image
“Creativity...passion...sweat...heartbreak...inspiration...and lots of hard work...that is what books are made of!” — Tara Fairfield Copy Share Image
Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
In his book Stand Ye In Holy Places, President Harold B. Lee wrote that one is converted when his eyes see what… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
“My ideal relationship with a book is that I will read it for the first time entirely unspoiled. I won’t know anything… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“women live the lie from birth on, and then one day they realize that it's too late for them, they're too old… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
“I can read you like a book. You’re scared, but you want this. You hate the fact that I affect you so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn't know much. It wasn't possible to buy a book about Nurmi, but I found out that in order to be… — Emil Zatopek Copy Share Image
I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Mostly I sit alone in a room and cry and do my job - so when they let me out of my… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It takes a while to get a movie together, and they dont start talking books until the movie is close to being… — Gregory Keyes Copy Share Image
A kiss is like a book, it can tell you a thousand words, but in order to under stand the true meaning… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'm not looking to be a Big Mac and fries author a la King. I'm aiming at filet mignon and steamed zucchini.” — LK Hunsaker Copy Share Image
A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were… — Quentin Bell Copy Share Image
Sometimes people ask, 'If you'd never had a reader, would you carry on writing?' No. — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
“Unlike baked beans, loaves of breads, or Fuji apples, books, once consumed, do not disappear.” — John Sutherland Copy Share Image
In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
A novel should tell a story, be a pleasure to read, and at the same time it should be thought-provoking, even a… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
“I believe the books we write are the dreams we couldn't find on the bookshelves...” — Ty Zeiter Copy Share Image
“There's nothing quite like reading a good book that just might become your favorite.” — Joscelyn Gleave Copy Share Image
Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal! — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When someone thinks, "I liked his last book, I'll hope this new one is good" and shells out their hard-earned, I fervently… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa. — Tom Barbash Copy Share Image
It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
“In the presence of a reader of Teilhard De Chardin I feel disarmed, nonplussed, ready to break down in tears.” — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“I feel there's nothing like a good classic book, except possibly its movie version.” — George Kohlman Copy Share Image
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
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