“My education has been so unwitting I can't quite tell which of my thoughts come from me and which from my books,… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
I always said that I want to write a book about success and my story and my brand and everything that goes… — Reem Acra Copy Share Image
The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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There was an author who titled his books by days of the weeks and another one that used colors. Then there was… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“Science fiction is a literature that belongs to all humankind. It portrays events of interest to all of humanity, and thus science… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative... I doubt… — V.S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
“He's one of those people, thought Howard, who looks like one quality very much, and the quality in this case is 'noble'.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I want to know one thing, the way to heaven; how to land safe on that happy shore. God Himself has condescended… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“I can’t pick a favorite book, explaining that it’s not about what or who is the best, but rather the story itself.… — Amanda Maxlyn Copy Share Image
“The only good thing about having dyslexia is that dyslexics are usually very creative people, or so I’ve been told. We think… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
So the difference between most books about love and Love For No Reason is that traditional love books focus on love as… — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
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They didn’t have novels back then. (Tory) History says they didn’t have books, yet what’s this thing in my hand? It’s square,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“If you have ever peeled an onion, then you know that the first thin, papery layer reveals another thin, papery layer, and… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“The feet-on-the-stove stance of this book is a deliberate attempt to cure myself, and anyone else who will listen, of the nasty… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Airbnb is a trusted online marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world. From a private room… — Joe Gebbia Copy Share Image
There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“There are many famous people who could read extremely fast. It was said that England’s Samuel Johnson could read almost as fast… — Peter Kump Copy Share Image
Many years ago, I was a producer on a movie called 'My Dog Skip.' Willie Morris, the great southern writer, had written… — John Lee Hancock Copy Share Image
I read everything. When I say everything, I read everything: children's literature, Y.A., science fiction, fantasy, romance - I read it all.… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“For the last five centuries, ever since Gutenberg's printing press made book reading a popular pursuit, the linear, literary mind has been… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
You need a community to succeed. In the back of every book is an acknowledgments page full of all the people it… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“She spent an astonishing amount of time in attending lectures and demonstrations, distributing literature for the Junior Anti-Sex League, preparing banners for… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The terror and hurt in my story happened because when I was young I thought others were the authors of my fortune… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
Writers take words seriously-perhaps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain… — James Lane Allen Copy Share Image
I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The fact remains that books that really put gay people in the center, and especially books that do so in a way… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know. An American author does not need to know… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“I go downstairs and the books blink at me from the shelves. Or stare. In a trick of the light, a row… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
All I've wanted to do is write. In school I just wanted to be a writer but I was afraid to be… — Eoin Macken Copy Share Image
