“There's nothing like cataloguing books for taking your mind off things.” — Mary Lou Kirwin Copy Share Image
I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light. — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French… — Sam Cooke Copy Share Image
“God did raise a finger to stop you. Here I am. Guess which finger." ~Emma Jane Hellsbane, /Hellsbane series Book 1/” — Paige Cuccaro Copy Share Image
“The class went all right, and the ones after became easier. I was enthusiastic, naive and idealistic, and I was in love… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning,… — Kate Thompson Copy Share Image
I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now,… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
“Welcome to my dungeon. It's not much," Linc said as he cleaned off a chair for her. "But… it's not much." He… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
The most obvious thing that comes to mind is the loss of one's privacy. Your life becomes an open book, but I've… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time developing in books why worshipping separately actually impacts inequality, economic, social, on and on. So I… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
What a person loves at 20 may seem stupid at 35. That doesn't mean the book was stupid, it means that the… — Carl Deuker Copy Share Image
To me, my husband was my son's murderer. He was also my daughter's molester. A parasite nibbling on the Holy Book, he… — Tehmina Durrani Copy Share Image
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“I want to kill every best-seller list and encourage Americans to discover for themselves inspired new literature that will endure in perpetuity.… — David B. Lentz Copy Share Image
Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there. — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person. — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces. — Anis Mansour Copy Share Image
“... the hopeful young author had no doubt that books might change the world.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read. — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
