'American Gods' was designed to be, if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read… — Madison Pettis Copy Share Image
I have to admit that I haven't read any of the books [of George Martin's "Game of Thrones"] and I don't refer… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
What is missed when people talk about books is the moment of grace when the reader creates the book, lends it the… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“From the moment I own a book, even before I open it to the first page, I feel that it has in… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I write in Times New Roman, 12 point, and arrange the margins so that the screen looks like a page from a… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
“("we appreciated the intricately thought-out, detailed universe you've created for your story." ~Arthur A. Levine Books (publishers of The Harry Potter series.))… — Arthur A. Levine books Copy Share Image
I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and… — Emilia Fox Copy Share Image
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Every book should begin with attractive endpapers,' he had once told Meggie. 'Preferably in a dark color: dark red or dark blue… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
This Is Not a Novel memorializes the treasures and detritus of one man's singularly cultured mind. (...) If you don't know Writer's… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“The trouble with education is,' said Jimmy cheerfully, 'that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means.… — Margaret Ayer Barnes Copy Share Image
My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in… — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
My favourite emails are along the lines of, 'My 14-year-old doesn't read much, but I gave him your book and he finished… — Anh Do Copy Share Image
The Bible, that powerful book, has many effects: it comforts, counsels, instructs, and brings us into the presence of God. But trying… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
“There was something she found intensely attractive about a man with a thirst for knowledge. Marc's obsessive love of books had been--she… — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
Read. It makes you more intelligent. It’s that simple. We all see the universe through the tiny keyhole of our own eyes,… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Writing mirrors the interior self. You know, any book is like the perfect blueprint of the psyche of the author. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I've been around so long that I might be in record books for being the longest, weirdest, most pathetic great player ever.… — Vince Spadea Copy Share Image
“Must one seek something? I seek to be seeking, as I learn to be learning. Each book is an adventure as is… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“As someone who has to teach for a living, I shouldn't be saying this, but the planet can do quite well without… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
“I am trying to add a book -that i am reading now. In spanisch- Schiller o la invención del idealismo alemán Best… — Rudiger Safranski Copy Share Image
I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm… — Jewel Copy Share Image
It is a happy day when I am asked to publicly recommend a book. It is also a dilemma. When I consider… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I'm a geek of all general types. I like a little bit of everything, I love comic books, I love pro-wrestling, I… — Ron Funches Copy Share Image
My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned…I had… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image