“Something clicked inside Ortez mind, like the bolt of a door latch being released. Man’s first encounter with sentient alien life was… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
My favorite sports novel is End Zone by Delillo. It's such a great looking book too, the black cover with the football… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
It is odd that a value/virtue that plays such a central role in dramatic literature has played such a small role in… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
“Yet the Narrator’s quest is not only for his own identity and vocation. He seeks an understanding of art, sexuality and worldly… — Adam A. Watt Copy Share Image
“Christine wouldn't choose him. But the reader won't forget him. They won't forget the Phantom's lamentations, his life, his love. They love… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
“Tucking my nose into a book makes me completely oblivious to my surroundings. I would have made a terrible spy in the… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
I personally was driven to be an actor for the love of telling a story. It was very closely linked to being… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
I feel that there is an alternate ending that leaps off too far into fantasy and there is an alternate ending that… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
“I think once an author is attacking people for leaving Amazon reviews, common sense has shut up shop and gone home, and… — K.J. Charles Copy Share Image
I read a ton of nonfiction. I tend to read about a lot of very extreme situations, life-or-death situations. I'm very interested… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
“What does reading do, You can learn almost everything from reading, But I read too, So you must know something, Now I'm… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. I love to hike, kayak, and swim. I also love… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Blood Riders is a novel like you've never read before - part Western and part horror and one-hundred percent sweet excitement. It's… — T. Jefferson Parker Copy Share Image
“I am in the house of nouns here, and it fills me with the conviction that good books sometimes give: that life… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
“If you're reading this book, there is probably an artist or band whose music you have an intense personal relationship with. I… — Steven Hyden Copy Share Image
Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
“. . .what does the computer know of the comforting weight of a book in one's lap? Or of the excitement that… — Ammon Shea Copy Share Image
“A librarian had found the baby sitting abandoned on the sheer edge of the world; the librarians kept her. That proved shrewd.… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
“The following tale is a fantasy, pure and simple. It is a flight of sheer imagination. It contains no hidden meanings, and… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I got fed up with the human race, really. I got a very negative feeling about human potentials. And for a while,… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Vacation reading is not a new concept. Ever since the 19th century, when novels were considered relatively sinful indulgences, leisure and fiction-reading… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“What I have revealed is an orgy of depravity and venality, and if there is any attempt to stop the publishing of… — Jacques Pauw Copy Share Image
I had no money to buy books, so between classes and work, I haunted the library. I even tutored in French with… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Christopher Hitchens's autobiography, 'Hitch 22', is a poignant read and very interesting because I have a very poor knowledge of recent political… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“I love you to the moon and back - you read that in one of the picture books you brought to my… — Heather Demetrios Copy Share Image
“as I reflected upon the matter, I discovered that these authors, in their books, were, after all merely making use of their… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
“You cast another bewildered look at the books around you (or, rather: it was the books that looked at you, with the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I watch a lot of teen TV and read a lot of YA novels. I also talk to teens whenever I can.… — Sarah Mlynowski Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker coming from one of the youngest lands in the world, New Zealand - safe, green and democratic - I… — Pietra Brettkelly Copy Share Image
“This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image
Each one could be a Jesus mild, Each one has been a little child, A little child with laughing look, A lovely… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
