No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“A generation who is only good at putting books on shelves as decorations.” — Muradous Copy Share Image
Guns started flying off store shelves just as soon as the black Democrat moved into the White House. — Mike Cooley Copy Share Image
Popular magazines multiply while the library shelves remain undisturbed. — Elisabeth Marbury Copy Share Image
It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection,… — Jennifer Haigh Copy Share Image
The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got… — Bernie Taupin Copy Share Image
The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference. — David Almond Copy Share Image
I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's… — William Everson Copy Share Image
It was important to buy into the fact that the nine hundred pages an end-reader never sees are just as valuable as… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
“Aside from the posters, wherever there was room, there were books. Stacks and stacks of books. Books crammed into mismatched shelves and… — Megan Crane Copy Share Image
I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
All these perfect days, made of glass Put on the shelf where they can cast perfect shadows that stretch and grow on… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic Gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies, pan-psychic hallucinations—this is the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The horrors of Vivisection have supplanted the solemnity, the thrilling fascination, of the old unetherized operation upon the human sufferer. Their recorded… — Henry Jacob Bigelow Copy Share Image
Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A cat actually thinks visibly. If you watch him jump on a shelf, the wish to jump and the action of jumping… — John Heilpern Copy Share Image
Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Take rainwater kept for several years, and mix a sextarius of this water with a pound of honey The whole is exposed… — Columella Copy Share Image
This was an age before e-books. We all knew that the only way you can allow a book to survive in print… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf.… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. ... While the artist's communication is linked… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I learned to make things not matter, to put a seal on my hopes and place them on a high shelf, out… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitized and easier screen dialogues, in much… — Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield Copy Share Image
My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
I hope I need not confess that a large part of my stock in trade consists of platitudes rescued from the cobwebbed… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
