“This book is for you, the reader. Without you, this book wouldn't be possible. None of this would be.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week. — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now. — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
I did 'Ant-Man' and 'The Mandalorian.' They came out back to back and then I didn't book anything for months. — Katy O'Brian Copy Share Image
My mother and father stressed education and always made sure we had a place to study and books to read. — Len Elmore Copy Share Image
A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books,… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to do a project with space imagery because I've always loved these amazing sci-fi electro book covers. I've always… — Robert Coppola Schwartzman Copy Share Image
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The awesome part about The Book of Awesome is the realization that if you enjoy the simple moments in your life, you… — Ben Huh Copy Share Image
If you try to write 1,000 words a day, as I do, after 100 days you'll look up and have a book.… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page. — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them. — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
As an author, I don't really think too much about being a celebrity. It's not like being a movie star or a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Personally, I saw no organized malevolence toward reporters in the IDF; I'd dealt with enough Israeli soldiers to know that many of… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
It's a wisdom that comes from seeing how things work. Things you want to happen always take a long time.' She pointed… — Donita K. Paul Copy Share Image
Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
If I open a book and see that the author is accusing an adversary of "infantile leftism" I shut it again right… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I think that people are really hungry for original content. I think there's a sense of reboots and remakes, and we're lacking… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
“A book--a real book--is one choice, taken from a pile, opened and entered as its own singular, separate world. Once chosen, you… — K.J. Dell'Antonia Copy Share Image
Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really. — Jacqueline Kelly Copy Share Image
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm a horribly chronic 'get half way through the book and start a new one' person. — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
An actor must read a lot. Books not only make one a good actor but also a better human being. — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image
“Don't cry while you are reading the book wait until you are done reading it.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
When you think of comic book readers, you never think of the brown girl, and I was that. — Iman Vellani Copy Share Image
I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human. — Shirley Knight Copy Share Image
A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou. — Edward Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms. — Lisa Whelchel Copy Share Image
We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day. — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own. — Holly Smale Copy Share Image