How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga… — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
I like cooking but I don't know much and whenever I enter the kitchen, my mother sends me out! Because whenever I… — Soundarya Copy Share Image
I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I don't have any children, but if I had a baby, I would have to name it, so I would get a… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
Books are like blankets, the mere sight of them around the house provides warmth and comfort. They are like mirrors, too, reflecting… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
“There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
Though the blame cannot be placed entirely on publishers, I do think a more diverse pool of editors would go a long… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There… — Don Novello Copy Share Image
Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but there’s an unreal air to it; reading a passage from… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
“I'd thought of her with unblinking eyes, moving always, across the pages of opened books with rapid precision, but as she stood… — Amber Dermont Copy Share Image
“You’re a literary person. If you ask me, there are passages in the Bible that a lover of literature has to appreciate,… — Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen Copy Share Image
When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“Reading a book, sharing a story, is the most intimate of experiences. It's the closest that I ever come to a Vulcan… — Cathy Maxwell Copy Share Image
One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“You can’t give what you don’t have. To write, you must read. To write well, read well.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Helping my little sis with homework!!...Freshening up on American government! Can't believe it's been 10 years since Ive read this book! — Audrina Patridge Copy Share Image
When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean. — Daniel Okrent Copy Share Image
I'd love to write a book and dabble in TV a little more - but only if it's right. I'm not going… — Elvis Duran Copy Share Image
“Books of value are just like people of value-they try only to elevate others, to help them to rise and to grow.” — Victor J. Banis Copy Share Image
“Only a true reader will understand how lovely it is to read a book on rainy days.” — Nicholaa Spencer Copy Share Image
“She sighed and looked at him sympathetically. 'Cool flame tricks aside, there's no competition.' He lifted his eyebrow. 'Library wins?' 'Every single… — Elizabeth Hunter Copy Share Image
“Launches the reader into a story of science and ancient mystery that will blow your mind: [From New York Times bestselling author… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind. — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
As much as I love books and the theater, I think the cinema is a uniquely modern medium that we look to… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I think we are very environmental people. We need to be supported environmentally. Books very much have that imprint on the mind. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
My agent, Jeff Andrews, suggested I write a book. For some reason. he doesn't like it when I'm not doing anything. — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book.… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music. — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
“The Word of God is truly divine. Every book, every chapter, every verse, and every line is a sign of God’s love… — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
Never go back to an old love no matter how strong it is beause it's like reading a book over & over… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“looked over at John. He had pulled a dozen books off the shelf and looked to be trying to read them all… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
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