“A woman who can read can educate herself. A woman who cannot knows only what she is told.” — Teresa Swift Copy Share Image
A bookstore has thousands of titles to sell. You need to be the guy the store attendant recommends to the reader. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to… — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I learn so much on Twitter all the time, and it would be a shame not to share that with my readers. — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first novel… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
“Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is… — Yvonne Strahovski Copy Share Image
A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“No, the Bible stands all alone, by itself, and there is not one other book which could share its glory. It is… — Patrick Davis Copy Share Image
All of the insights that we might ever need have already been captured by others in books. The important question is this:… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“They say the content and the cover are the most important things when it comes to a book or a novel, right?… — Jimmy Tudeski Copy Share Image
There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Never tell a woman that they need you. Never ever. Don't do that because then we're gonna show you the reason -… — GloRilla Copy Share Image
“If what I reading has the power to grip me, I can read under the most difficult circumstances.” — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
I would say one of my favorite books is 'Blood Brothers,' a documentary about Malcolm X. — Tobias Harris Copy Share Image
Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep. — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
Jack Benny really liked my book. I know because he called me up from the library and told me. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
I have to re-write a lot. I couldn't tell you how many drafts I write, but I know I've done at least… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby. — Jeff B. Davis Copy Share Image
Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work. — Sally Schneider Copy Share Image
The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures. — Sriram Raghavan Copy Share Image
My guiltiest pleasure is reading a novel with a glass of wine. I love to read voraciously. I always have. And I… — Kasi Lemmons Copy Share Image
“Merrick belonged to that class of reader who was able to forget with amazing ease the hand moving the characters behind the… — Felix J Palma Copy Share Image
I thought it would be great to do superheroes that have the same kind of life problems that any reader - that… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“You disappoint me. We're at the end of the book, and not once did you count Dooku!” — Calliope Glass Copy Share Image
Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In cities like New York, it is common to find taxicabs with wireless-enabled card readers. — Om Malik Copy Share Image
“all heathen books are poisoned through and through with this striving after praise and honor.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Nor would I willingly miss the early darkness and the pleasant firelight tea and the long evenings among my books.” — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
There are no authentic reports in any of the Muslim books of history of the Prophet Muhammad punishing anyone for same-sex acts. — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
