I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd... →
Al Yankovic
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had... →
William Butler Yeats
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure... →
Kenko Yoshida
All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.
Marguerite Young
I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for... →
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that... →
Eliezer Yudkowsky
With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers;... →
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
Ahmet Zappa
I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.