“A book always tells more about the author than the protagonist himself.” — Sneha Mehta Copy Share Image
You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you've optioned them. — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
Hell, I'm going to play pro basketball. I'm going to maybe be famous. I'm going to write books. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life. — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
“Bullets aren't going to better the world, but books can, and will.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“My book isn't meant to be read all at once, but rather all in good time” — Justin Bienvenue Copy Share Image
“the end of the book isn’t the last page, it’s the last day you think about what you read” — Dave Campbell Copy Share Image
I'm going to name a name: Janet Evanovich. She writes the same book over and over, and I read every single one… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoy'd at home, An Nature, in her cultivated trim Dress'ed to his… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books… — Gavyn Davies Copy Share Image
"The diary, "My diary. Little Ginny's been writing in it for months and months, telling me all her pitiful worries and woes… — Tom Riddle Copy Share Image
Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an… — Jesse James Garrett Copy Share Image
Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
Well, I'm drawn to stuff that is darker. I will probably do a version of Jane Austen at some point because her… — Robert Sikoryak Copy Share Image
The idea wasn't to make a direct political statement since the current economic collapse hadn't begun when we started on the book.… — James Vance Copy Share Image
I saved letters from my boss. There are things in there that are directly transcribed. I was so glad I did that.… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
