Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
What if I like watching television? What if I don't want to do much else other than read a book?... What if… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
“A personal library is an X-ray of the owner’s soul. It offers keys to a particular temperament, an intellectual disposition, a way… — Jay Parini Copy Share Image
“The analysis in this book does not just apply to the extreme cases it has examined, where the whole of government has… — Sarah Chayes Copy Share Image
“There are so many little trig~ gers out there, being squeezed in the darkness even as I write this. This book is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you wish to escape to another part of the book. You stop reading and riffle the pages, catching sight of the… — Thomas Wharton Copy Share Image
“I did get so wigged out that I sneaked out to his house a couple times in the middle of the night… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“With no sums to keep his conscience at bay, the black book loomed large, creeping into his line of sight. He scanned… — Karen Witemeyer Copy Share Image
“We do it by the book, then?" "Precisely. By the book. Yes. Except that there isn't a book." "Right. We do it… — William Ritter Copy Share Image
If God had meant for me to be religious, he would have alphabetized the books of the Bible. It was just too… — Cathie Pelletier Copy Share Image
“One has to be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most… — john gardner Copy Share Image
Doesn't the theory of relativity concern literature too? In our world there is no longer any room for the privileged observer, as… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us.… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
“There are few things better than losing yourself in a book. And if you're lucky enough to have that adventure continue in… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
In Africa, when you pick up a book worth reading, out of the deadly consignments which good ships are always being made… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
A Boosh fan bought me an original copy of 'The Jungle Book' - like, the first print from 1894 - so I've… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
Being a parent is the toughest thing I've ever done. But I'm not the kind of person to throw my kid in… — Eric Dane Copy Share Image
Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Human beings don’t necessarily exist inside of (or correspond to) the neat racial, gendered or national boxes into which we often unthinkingly… — Moshin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Middlemarch is a novel that is diminished by being put on the screen. It can't help but be, because so much of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Anyone of any age, any race, any background, any education - if they write an interesting enough book - can become a… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is like pottery. Your initial draft of your story is like a lump of clay. Editing is like shaping… — Monika Pardon Copy Share Image
My to-do list is the only form of organization I have, other than my iCal. It's not all work stuff; it's a… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
“Again, all who are smitten with the love of books think cheaply of the world and wealth; as Jerome says to Vigilantius:… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
'In the Wake' was a very bleak book. This relationship was not too good, the father and son. This time around, I… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
If I want to read something that's really giving me something serious and fundamental to think about, about the human condition, if… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“If arts and music, precious gifts in themselves, were akin to memory, literature was the self-knowing of the species; the human mind… — Mark Cantrell Copy Share Image
Every Latter-day Saint should make the study of this book a lifetime pursuit. Otherwise, he is placing his soul in jeopardy and… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
That's a movie quote, right? You know, if you do that with books, people think you're intelligent." Sophie lowered her chin. "If… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“See - this book belongs to you,' Hannah said sweetly. 'No young lady,' the birdman said. 'It belongs to you - but… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
This book is the best treatment of the best American Marxist philosopher-and the best philosopher to emerge from American slums. Young Sidney… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is odd, isn’t it? Whenever I read something interesting, I tear out a piece and keep it as a talisman until… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
