“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
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
Friends are animated books. They are a completely delightful, absolutely painless means of continuing one's education. — Jo Coudert 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
“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
“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
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
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries.… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
“To look after a medieval estate, one required a map, an indexed account book and an abacus. For its time, this was… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
“Ask and it shall be given you,'" I began. "'Seek and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you;… — Olive Ann Burns Copy Share Image
“The kumbaya authors say you can make up an affirmation that fits your personality and say this to yourself throughout the day.… — Alison G. Bailey Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful novel is the one that starts with a sentence wholly unexpected by the reader who has lived through our… — Ahlam Mosteghanemi Copy Share Image
Adapted from the novel by L. Ron Hubbard, who cranked out sci-fi pulp by the cubic ton, 'Battlefield Earth' has the musty… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I wanted what women always want: permission. But he'd had that before this book was even written; it was, after all, the… — Kathryn Chetkovich Copy Share Image
I don't think I'll write a large novel again because it was like being in jail for me. Even though that's the… — Sandra Cisneros 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
“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
“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
Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them. — Rumi 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
I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
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
Dating the same guy twice is like reading a book,you already know the end...but if I would only have the chance I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage.… — Jim McKelvey Copy Share Image
I'm sure the large part of me is Holden Caulfield, who is the main person in the book. The small part of… — Mark David Chapman Copy Share Image
Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
My little book of stories, 'Souls in the Twiligh,' may have to stand in for all the other things I have wanted… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it's very… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
I keep saying my books don't have superheroes. They have ordinary people in extraordinary situations. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
"You don't believe what you read in the papers about anything else; why do you believe it about the pope?" That's where… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being where I am today. I… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
“A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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