“Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine. A book can make you find room in yourself for something you never thought… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad. — David Karp Copy Share Image
That's the thing about a great book. Every time you read it, it's different, because you're different. You've changed since the last… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation. — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out the holy book command. — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
where I have seen good I shall speak of it with pleasure, and where I have seen the reverse, I shall try… — Isabel Burton Copy Share Image
I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they're called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
My little sister told me about the Twilight books and what a big fan she was. She said, "It's like Harry Potter… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
Life is precious, so I ought to spend my days, you know, making sandwiches for homeless people and tending to the elderly… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for Stephen Hawking, I,… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I've literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy… — Emma Roberts Copy Share Image
Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The fans have always supported me; bought my books, attended my camps and wore my sneakers. I will always have a special… — Walt Frazier Copy Share Image
The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any… — Johann Most Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race did without them for thousands of years… — E M Forster Copy Share Image
The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available. — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
Throw out the rule book. If you like wearing navy and black together, wear it; if you like mixing up gold and… — Amber Le Bon Copy Share Image
To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
In general, a writer would like to think that the best book that he has written is the book that he is… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
My library card. Every hurdle I've faced, I have researched my way over at a library. I'm grateful for that part of… — Sarah Bird Copy Share Image
I wrote books to entertain. I'm not trying to teach anything! If I suspected the author was trying to show me how… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Usually you tend to glean much more information about your character from what other people say about you, rather than how it's… — Sean Bean Copy Share Image
I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
People would tell me, especially after my marriage to Prince, 'You need to write a book because you've had a crazy life.' — Mayte Garcia Copy Share Image
Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, "No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image