I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
“Who are these people who think a book comes with a guarantee that they will like it?” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them. — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Remember that just because major publishing is having trouble, that doesn't mean people have stopped reading books. Printed books won't go away,… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life,… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion) — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The sages are often ignorant of physical science, because they read the wrong book-the book within; and the scientists are too often… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
“A book is the pinnacle of arrogance for it demands to be heard, but it cannot listen. It desires to communicate, yet… — Alec Hutson Copy Share Image
I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Our children, Edward, Agnes, and little Mary, promise well; their education, for the time being, is chiefly committed to me; and they… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
“But I can say that if you’re a writer who happens to be a woman, you’ll get a book cover that depicts… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
We are free, in the West, to choose; we have real choice to pursue our own desires; we are free to set… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
