“The use of reading, Gibbon says somewhere, is to aid us in thinking. I have always disagreed with Gibbon over that; he… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
If you can write (and don't kid yourself that you can, if you can't) and you have ideas that are commercially viable… — Joel McIver Copy Share Image
When we refer to books we more often get advice from the well-educated and honest, when we refer to the internet we… — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
“Our taste for books came from Antonin, an old second-hand bookseller, an anarchist, whose shop was on Cours Julien. We'd cut classes… — Jean-Claude Izzo Copy Share Image
“Our senses and emotions are the great source of inspiration for creating compelling and interesting art pieces (books included). Each art piece,… — Serafima Bogomolova Copy Share Image
Patti Callahan Henry seamlessly combines mystery, family love, and personal journey all in one engrossing tale. From the intriguing beginning to the… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Books are sharks... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Most of us have loved. And the terror for a writer is that readers will forgive you so much, but they won't… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been… — Mike Stoller Copy Share Image
I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is… — William Golding Copy Share Image
When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story.… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
“When I found it amongst the book thief's words, I realised that we passed each other once in a while during that… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I'm just having fun making jokes and writing books. But you see me once a year, I come on when I have… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“Great. He was a hottie, a good kisser, and a literature buff. God really must have had a sense of humor, because… — Kody Keplinger Copy Share Image
Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate; they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation,… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
The stories of the first refugees that I ever came across in literature - that lots of people ever came across -… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
If I were doing a real rock show, slapping the phone book in time to the music, grooving with the songs, then… — Casey Kasem Copy Share Image
I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even when they relate to literature), to visit people bores… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The holy grail is right here in this gem of a book. Tosha Silver’s wisdom goes down as easy as a mint… — Lissa Rankin Copy Share Image
Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the… — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live,… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
Reader! To whatever visible church, synagogue, or mosque you may belong! See if you do not find more true religion among the… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
The power of a text when it is read is different from the power it has when it is copied out. Only… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Anybody who pretends that how you read the 10th and 11th Amendment doesn't have a fundamental impact on the things we care… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“I can't understand how a man who seems never to read imaginative writing of any kind (novels, poetry, short stories, high-brow, middle-brow,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I hear what many of you are saying: We don’t have the time, we are busy. Well Nobody Has Time, Everyone Is… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. When it comes to actually pulling this off, the writer… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Remember, God created us because He wanted a relationship with us. Go read Psalm 139 if you are doubting that. God knew… — Sadie Robertson Copy Share Image
Marry someone who flatters you. Because I've written 80 books since 'War Horse' but when my wife reads one, all she says… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
My own experience as a reader and writer has been that the more I read, and the more I live, the more… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
