My sense of what a book should be has changed so radically. I like to think for the better. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend. — Marc Bolan Copy Share Image
He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. from the Book of Proverbs — Solomon Copy Share Image
“Sometimes authors treat their books are burgers. More they want to sell, more spices they put in.” — Sudhir Mittalittal Copy Share Image
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd; I just thought there were more of them out there. But… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Novels are nothing but evolution, but there does come a point when that stops, and the story is sealed within the pages… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and… — Tawni O'Dell Copy Share Image
A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Smart art galleries know it's not the words on paper but the emotion in the piece that makes clients pull out the… — Jack White Copy Share Image
“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Regardless of whether the authors I've translated have been "dead and canonized," or "living and established," or even simply "emerging," I must… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
A great deal has been written about personal power by Carlos Casteneda, and I find his first four books valuable. Of the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I know this is one of the unthinkable taboos of our society, but I had discovered in myself a talent for a… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“I'm only a kind of book doctor. I can give books new bindings, rejuvenate them a little, stop the bookworms from eating… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Get a peek at what married life is like for Layken and Will in This Girl, the third book” — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
CAN'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER. BECAUSE THAT BOOK MIGHT JUST BE THE LOVE STORY YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR. — Ashley Copy Share Image
The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“To me, you are a book I have opened. I can't put it down. I need to know more.” — Jodi Ellen Malpas Copy Share Image
I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I was dropped by my publisher after my first two books. But I always believed in myself. — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable. — Yunus Emre Copy Share Image
“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one that makes you think.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
