Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“I wanted to build walls around him, I wanted to separate inside from outside, I wanted to give him an infinitely long… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I’ll probably just read a book. I’ve got like a million of them in my to-be-read pile.” — Rebekah L. Purdy Copy Share Image
“I want to read every book that’s written hear every song that was sung I want to gaze at every cloud and… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
If you didn't have employers able to pay off the books and off the record safely in cash, you wouldn't have illegal… — Kenneth Rogoff 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
“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
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
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
The dedication of this book is split seven ways: to Neil, to Jessica, to David, to Kenzie, to Di, to Anne, and… — Anonymous 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
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
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“With a book, she could at least visit with people, even if it was vicariously, even if they didn't exist beyond someone's… — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
I write diverse books because the world we live in is diverse, and I want my books to reflect that truth. — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
“The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth. This is a book about the signal and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Friends are animated books. They are a completely delightful, absolutely painless means of continuing one's education. — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
I'll read a book. I'll watch a documentary or a film or whatever. I'll go to an art exhibit and just try… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
“I don’t think I like American inventions [...] I am quite sure I don’t. I read some American novels lately, and they… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Life without Music would be a Mistake. Life without Books would be Catastrophic!” — Nandini Deka Copy Share Image
Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Why waste the space on a stack of half-read books and periodicals, when you could turn your nightstand into a tactical toolbox?” — Clint Emerson Copy Share Image
“Shobha announced, trying to lighten the mood. “And I’ll keep all the books,” Girish said in the same spirit. “Fair enough. But… — Amulya Malladi Copy Share Image
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The book industry is all about community, and it never really feels like anyone is competing against anyone, thankfully. — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
Dont read success stories, you will get only message¦ Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success¦!! — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I'm quite fond of the writer who told a beginning author, "If you've got a message, use Western Union." — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
A Million Little Pieces. I wanted the stories in the book to ebb and flow, to have dramatic arcs, to have the… — James Frey Copy Share Image
William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
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