When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Freud wrote a book on the essence of humor, but he didn't know what he was talking about. Max Eastman wrote a… — John Gould Copy Share Image
“This is not a how-to book. It is a how-to-think-about-how-to book. In it I bombard you with images and metaphors with never… — Judith Mason Copy Share Image
“These gurus promise to teach you how to build self-esteem in your children. Have you noticed that no books promise to help… — Tedd Tripp Copy Share Image
The first book I bought was 'Anne of Green Gables,' an edition that is beautiful and complete - one I hope to… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
It is said that an Author won't become a great writer until they've suffered. I guess I'm in the throws of a… — Christel Tait Copy Share Image
I got hit by the bug of reading - not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town.… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged;… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
“In the wildlife sanctuaries of literature, we study the species of speech, the flight patterns of individual words, the herd behavior of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
I think that if you look at all of the books that have ever been written about people working in the White… — Alyssa Mastromonaco Copy Share Image
For until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by His fatherly care, that He is the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“My husband is nervous about a lot of things down here, like the monstrous size of the fire ants and the quality… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the… — Bible Copy Share Image
In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And those who flee for Allah's sake after they are oppressed, We shall certainly give them a good abode in the world;… — Compton Gage Copy Share Image
In real life, people are integrated into society. That's what happens in my books as well. Minor characters don't just walk in… — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic,… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
But I don't know, maybe it's just as well I never got there. I dreamed about it for so many years. I… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big issues in ways that even… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
“A book on war is useful, but it’d be even more useful if it could shoot bullets. Or stop them. Or stop… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“In the writing of books, as all the world knows, two things are above all other things essential -- the one is… — Jeffery Farnol Copy Share Image
“When we create a space in which to practice our craft, it is beneficial to surround ourselves with objects that invite desired… — Brad Stulberg Copy Share Image
“This is the most important thing about me--I'm a card-carrying reader. All I really want to do is sit and read or… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Thus far, the only people who can grant you immortality are not scientists, but writers. By writing you into their books, they… — Charbel Tadros Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books. I was not interested in… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
If anyone ever wonders why there's nothing coming from me, it's not my fault. I'm doing the work. No, I haven't deteriorated… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
Friends are like a page in the book of life. Every page with a different subject. But you are my index page… — Lauren Copy Share Image
A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“A little boy, he can play like he's a fireman or a cop--although fewer and fewer are pretending to be cops, thank… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Nobody had books at home. My dad was a very educated person, so he would have books at home. All Spanish books.… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
