“If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.” — Murray Pura Copy Share Image
“Already there are too many books in the world. There are more every day. One man cannot hope to read them all.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“I'm the type of girl who will buy a third copy of the same book just because it is an older edition.” — T.J. Mihaila Copy Share Image
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Summer came. For the books thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending… — Rudolf Spielmann Copy Share Image
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“I can read books. I can flow like a river. I can absorb everything that comes my way, good or bad.” — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to… — Horace Copy Share Image
There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations.… — S. S. Van Dine Copy Share Image
“And books! ...she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Its (the Left’s) intensity derives from the fact that it’s a family largely composed of, in a manner of speaking, orphans of… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage… — Newell Dwight Hillis Copy Share Image
Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life. — Cassandra King Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I shall take my fortune and retire to the country and read novels where other characters must bother with these sorts… — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
I read Pushing the Limit and Dare You To by Katie McGarry. Fantastic stuff. I had never read young adult before, but… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
“There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessness. Wuthering Heights is a virgin's… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“This tee features a jumble of Scrabble tiles with the tagline, “I just bought this book at IKEA.” — Trixie Silvertale Copy Share Image
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not that into reading. If I'm gonna read, I'm gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help… — Jon Heder Copy Share Image
“Another damn'd thick, square book! Always, scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr. Gibbon? (On publication of Vol. 1 of The Rise and Fall… — Duke of Gloucester Copy Share Image
“The only reward to be expected from the cultivation of literature is contempt if one fails and and hatred if one succeeds.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything… — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
“...all readings are provisional, and that maybe we read heroines for what we need from them at the time.” — Samantha Ellis Copy Share Image
“Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this book on its way… — ryan fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“I like Mr. Dickens’ books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray’s daughters.” — David Markson Copy Share Image
Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“It seemed that in Paris you could discuss classic literature or architecture or great music with everyone from the garbage collector to… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“Faith and trust are like intangible assets; stay along with the books of life, even if not accounted for.” — Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for… — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
“eBooks are just digital copies of analog books. Convenient, yes. But we have the technology now to rethink what a book is.” — David Conger Copy Share Image
[Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“Being self-published makes me no less "published" than the authors who are with publishing companies.” — Adrienne Thompson Copy Share Image
“Read positive books; see positive things and surround yourself with positive thinkers; life will be full with positivity.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image