A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen. — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
I have just about every book written on the Klan and I've read them all. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
Great song lyrics are as valid a part of American literature as any novel. — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.” — Dermot Davis Copy Share Image
Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Sometimes if I can't sleep and I am up in the night, I will start researching things - it could be an… — Georgina Chapman Copy Share Image
“Guys are open books; wives can read them without breaking a sweat. They’re just little boys who love being bad.” — Jack Erickson Copy Share Image
“If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
And that brings us to tonight's word: Truthiness. Now I'm sure some of the word-police, the 'wordanistas' over at Websters, are gonna… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“So I’m reading some poem by Louise . . . something, I forget her last name, but it’s about Hades and the… — Julie James Copy Share Image
“ME, a neurological disease[20,21], has been described in the medical literature since 1934 under various names[22], e.g., epidemic neuromyasthenia and atypical poliomyelitis,… — Frank Twisk Copy Share Image
We have a generation of kids who may never see a bookshelf or never see books in houses. What are they going… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“For ordinary books are like meteors. Each of them has only one moment, a moment when it soars screaming like the phoenix,… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
“It's always so cool to think you are looking at today is something other people have been looking at for centuries. It's… — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
“When I returned home soon afterwards, it was with a newly awakened sense of what Australian literature was good for: helping us… — George Williamson Copy Share Image