Think about the way you go surfing on the Internet - you go from one thing to another. You can't really concentrate.… — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I am actually hoping to write a series of books! The Amazon was the first one I got finished and have managed… — Helen Skelton Copy Share Image
“To publish besides the results the way (and the order!) in which they were reached, to mention the blind alleys as well,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
'Celebrate' is meant to be a guide to party planning and, as such, it has to cover the basics. If I were… — Pippa Middleton Copy Share Image
Even in an advanced stage of civilization, there is always a tendency to prefer those parts of literature which favor ancient prejudices,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
One person reads the book, and cannot help telling a friend. That is vastly superior to any kind of advertisement, or clever… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I went on to write my graduate thesis on the ["Montgomery Story"] comic book itself. It was the first long-form history that… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
“Mikazuki Publishing House What our Friends Think We Do: Advertising, Marketing, Selling, Promotion. What Authors Think We Do: Cut checks and hand… — kambiz mostofizadeh Copy Share Image
If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
“Books are to be call’d for, and supplied, on the assumption that the process of reading is nor a half-sleep, but, in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“And I tell you what, this whole let me read to you thing is just about the most tender expression I've ever… — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your television set… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
As a writer, I never want to have an author's message. I really want to present a situation with it in as… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Sex appeal was the “spoonful of sugar” that helped the “medicine” of feminism go down. A liberated heroine who still looked sexy… — Mike Madrid Copy Share Image
Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
“Rough week, right? Listen, every book in your home is one of us saying to you, please hold on until the end.… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
All three of my books, "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora," "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres," and "Birds of… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
“Your mail could've waited." Daemon followed me into the kitchen. "What is it? Just books?" Grabbing the OJ from the fridge, I… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
If you take a big epic novel and you shoot it, when you get to the editing room you notice that it… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
All my books are an inquiry into the nature of evil. Why do good people do bad things? Are any human beings… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“I am trying to come up with some "adult" reads, but I mostly read young adult fiction (my job), which, by the… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I only read magazines when I travel, which tend to be a combination of lads' mags, which keep me entertained, and publications… — Colin Jackson Copy Share Image
I haven't read for pleasure in 35 years. I mean, I get a lot of pleasure from what I read... For me,… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“Worldview" is not based on books; it is an internal form, which at times in a person with little education is expressed… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
No refining of one's taste in matters of art or literature, no sharpening of one's powers of insight in matters of science… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
You ever talk about a movie with someone that read the book? They're always so condescending. 'Ah, the book was much better… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
Both my parents were big readers. My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image