Acts Quote by Kate Braverman

I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.

— Vladimir Nabokov

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff…

— Richard Ford

I surround myself with books, kind of hoping the vast knowledge will just seep into my mind through osmosis.

— Steve Backshall

I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something…

— Gregory Maguire

I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.

— Michael Morpurgo

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.

— Allan Bloom

Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along…

— Harper Lee

I'm stupidly curious. I will go and touch anything until I find out that it's very harmful.

— Steven Yeun

There are little things that get on my nerves, like people who have reading material in their powder room. When you go in someone’s…

— John Waters

Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on…

— Rachel Cohn

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin,…

— Mark Twain

I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have…

— Ludwig Bemelmans