If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
“In the presence of a reader of Teilhard De Chardin I feel disarmed, nonplussed, ready to break down in tears.” — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
When someone thinks, "I liked his last book, I'll hope this new one is good" and shells out their hard-earned, I fervently… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“I want to write a book so long that it will take the average person their whole life to read. It will… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
“In this book we will synthesize a single algorithm will all these capabilities: Our quest will take us across the territory of… — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
“they would soon be old enough to read The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit and Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome, and… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Nancy carried a cardboard boxes loaded with books toward the moving van that Saturday morning. Our eyes met and we shared a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I enjoy both TV writing and novel writing, and they are very similar. The goal is to entertain and amuse the audience,… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“...there are pleasures to be had from books beyond being lightly entertained. There is the pleasure of being challenged; the pleasure of… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
“From the book Ell's Double Down - He waited but when she remained with her back to him, he grew concerned. She… — Caroline Walken Copy Share Image
While researching 'Horse Soldiers,' I conducted over 100 interviews in the U.S. and in Afghanistan, and in Afghanistan, I walked and studied… — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
“I don’t know how [books] accumulate like that. They’re part rabbit, I think.” — Beatriz Williams Copy Share Image
A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be. — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“Your book has a way of telling me what I'm feeling before I even feel it” — John Green Copy Share Image
Writing a novel that crosses genres is a risk, but one well worth taking. — Chet Williamson Copy Share Image
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