Independent Quote by Ayn Rand

“Didn’t anyone share the same passion for books that I did?”

— Meghan Quinn

“Is your book interesting?' I had already formed the intention of asking her to lend it to me some day.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“I just like the feeling of finding the right word in my mind and employing it. I get pleasure from that feeling. I prefer…

— Aimee Bender

“From elementary school up to college I was never interested in things I was forced to study. I told myself it was something that…

— Haruki Murakami

“He liked people who knew weird things, just because it seemed to hint at some odd inner life.”

— Andrea Speed

“Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the…

— Gary Shteyngart

“In life, like art, there has to be an essential sense of weirdness.”

— Jo Brunini

“people, including types that I didn’t like much at all but felt I had something to learn or to gain from.”

— Walter Kirn

“I like to think that when I complete a novel I learned something along the way.”

— Michael J. Kannengieser

“I find it intriguing that a girl who doesn’t seem to be afraid of anything would pretend as if she were in front of…

— Cheryl McIntyre

“Only the weird keeps things interesting. Never surrender your weirdness.”

— Michelle E. Lowe

“She‘d never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to other people.”

— Alan Bennett