Ambassadors Quote by Roger Moore

Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I'm lucky when events haven't overtaken the book I'm…

— Nelson DeMille

My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah-time or Kwanzaa-time is that people go to bookstores: that they walk around bookstores and look at the…

— Michael Dirda

books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.

— Louisa May Alcott

I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on…

— Shmuel Yosef Agnon

I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject…

— Rick Wakeman

“Suggestions for further reading Karen Armstrong, Jerusalem; Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones; Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha; Deepak Chopra, God: A Story of Revelation; Kahlil Gibran, The…

— Paulo Coelho

A good book is an event in my life.

— Stendhal

I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today; second,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more than all…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

As far as reading is concerned, I like historical and political books and works of art.

— Naveen Patnaik

I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for…

— Leo Tolstoy

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

— John Larroquette