Without him (Jean-Christophe) I would never have understood the splendour of taking free andindependent action as an individual. Up until this stolen….

I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me..

For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time is to be reminded that we ….

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundre….

As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without contribu….

Coolidge was a pragmatist. He didn't start out with a tax theory. But he observed over time that lower tax rates sometimes brought in extra revenue. ….

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life..

People really want to set up these rivalries because there's a lot of vampire books out there. People want to believe we're all fierce rivals, and re….

I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V. and spent whole Bar Mitzvah check….

Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain fait….

I think James Bond is a spy. He's not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies "comic-book movies.".

If your father, who is known for carrying around a belt, told you to read a book, you went and did it. I've never spanked my kid - I think because in….

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delig….

The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by unknown authors who wrote and edited ….

You can't have a dream come true if you don't have a dream. You can't write a book if you don't write..

I do write about thinkers. And that's what I love about reading. My favorite books, the ones that made me sit there for days, weeks, months, years, a….

I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. ….

Anything worth anything can be found in books..

With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. W….

Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do..

I thought of the structure as musical. The first piece, for instance, contains the names/subject matter of every person to come in the book. Like a p….