I have a very short attention span, so books have never been my thing. — Jason Jones Copy Share Image
I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one. — Jason Biggs Copy Share Image
What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the dustiest cover hides the best book. Sometimes the best cup is chipped.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas. — Patricia McCormick Copy Share Image
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“It is the first book, maybe the only book to talk about how the problem of climate change can be addressed in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of… — Misha Collins Copy Share Image
Professionally, my first book came out at the age of 29, where I wrote about my experiences of backpacking in U.S. on… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
“Literature is the original Internet – every footnote, every citation, every allusion is essentially a hyperlink to another text, to another mind.” — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
“Art is made by those who consider themselves to have failed at whatever isn’t art. And of course it is loved as… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Sara Blair's Harlem Crossroads is an important addition to the body of literature that currently exists about Harlem. It brilliantly illuminates the… — Dawoud Bey Copy Share Image
“Readers, friends, if you turn these pages Put your prejudice aside, For, really, there's nothing here that's outrageous, Nothing sick, or bad… — François Rabelais Copy Share Image
I am grateful that early in my life I was blessed with a simple faith that Joseph Smith was a prophet of… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
When I went home at 20 to tell my parents, 'I don't want to be an engineer, I want to try and… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“The single book that has influenced me most is probably the last book in the world that anybody is gonna want to… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
When you read a history or biography you are entitled to imagine that it is as accurate as the authors can make… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
“You are the author of your own destiny; write yourself into history books.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image