I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
“If life was a book; every day would be a new page, every month would be a new chapter, and every year… — Elizabeth Duivenvoorde Copy Share Image
I always tell people it's funny that they think I'm a relationship expert because my two books are about getting out of… — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
If you want something to happen, then you make it happen. Only you can be the author of your own story. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dylan Landis knows how to unnerve a reader, even as she's appreciating being unnerved. Rainey Royal thrums with sex and power. A… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
“beginning of this book that the instruction in reading that it provides applies to anything you have to or want to read.… — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“Basilard, can you cover our trail?” Basilard rubbed his head dubiously. Maldynado, Books, and Akstyr leave trail like marching army.” — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
“But it was the Count’s review of the Contents—a list of 107 essays on the likes of Constancy, Moderation, Solitude, and Sleep—that… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“The novel has accompanied man uninterruptedly and faithfully since the beginning of the Modern Era. It was then that the "passion to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I read Herman Hesse's 'Siddhartha' while I was writing 'Lord of Light' along with many other things. It seemed a good time… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There must be many books, many lovely pines, to shield from hungry eyes the book that really matters, the wretched cave of… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why this book? In today’s globalized world, it seems we forget things that happened only a decade ago. Thus, we repeat the… — Thomas Jerome Baker Copy Share Image
“You have just confirmed to me that one of the most fortunate purposes of literature is to bring like-minded people together and… — Laurence Cossé Copy Share Image
“we are bad books about our favorite topics. I am my dumbest dollar & I am what is left when it learns.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I'd like them… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer) — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another? — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock. — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
“He said if I warn’t so ignorant, but had read a book called Don Quixote, I would know without asking. He said… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
We kissed each other, long and deep, while my legs opened like the covers of a book. — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“My own heart is in my characters. My novels are my memories; they are the best part of me.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
“Being kind is the greatest strength. Being kind is like being a ray of hope in society where strength is marked by… — Aquib Ali Copy Share Image
I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter. — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what… — Michael Gerson Copy Share Image
I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento) — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Dive into a book as though diving into water, poverty awaits him for he who does not go there... — JTC Copy Share Image
I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I tend to pull nuggets out of many books - rather than having a handful of books that serve as guiding lights. — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
“the book is intended to show how it is possible to live in and be enlarged by loss, even as we continue… — Jerry Sittser Copy Share Image
