“Books are precious things and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco.” — Colin Bateman Copy Share Image
I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book. — Rob Machado Copy Share Image
“He treated...my scarred as shit past and body as chapters of a book he wanted to hold in his hands and finish.” — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).” — Mike Schmoker Copy Share Image
I wanted to be one of these multidisciplinary critics who is doing music one day, TV the next, and books the next. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes. — Whitey Herzog Copy Share Image
“Most of her contemporaries simply don't understand why she has all these paper books, or indeed all this paper. It's a hands-on… — Carla Speed McNeil Copy Share Image
“Authors are the curators of experience. They filter the world's noise, and out of that noise they make the purest signal they… — Peter Mendelsund Copy Share Image
“Measures were quickly taken throughout Mississippi to outlaw the distribution of the Defender as well as the Crisis, the magazine of the… — Adrienne Berard Copy Share Image
If you're not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown up. Even… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction.… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
“How to read this book: Even after I was told my father was dead, I believed (I still believe) that I could… — Christopher Boucher Copy Share Image
I never admit to wishing I'd written something by another author, but if my name mysteriously appeared on the title page of… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
“Introducing a great artist, Alexander Wainwright in THe Fate of Pryde. In his landscapes, Alex expresses the totality of everything in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
I'm a bibliophile and I usually read three to four books at the same time. — Kunal Kapoor Copy Share Image
“What do you see when you look and what do you hear when you read?” — Albert Clayton Gaulden Copy Share Image
