Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read that day. — Chamfort Copy Share Image
“How do I know a really good book? When, between the pages, I come undone.” — Marcia Whyte Copy Share Image
The child who is being raised strictly by the book is probably a first edition. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest… — Emanuel Celler Copy Share Image
My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books. — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book. — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading,… — Susan Rothenberg Copy Share Image
“Drawing on the best modern scholarship, this book seeks to rescue the history of networks from the clutches of the conspiracy theorists,… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Any time you read a book and get attached to the characters, to me it's always a shock when it goes from… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“But as the Count advanced through Essays Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen, his goal seemed to recede into the distance. It was suddenly… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Against such a background one can easily imagine the shock that must have gripped readers of The Times of London, who turned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
“The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance… A better course of procedure is to pretend that these books… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been asked several times since the book Love and Trouble came out, "Are you still sad?" And I'm not, not in… — Claire Dederer Copy Share Image
I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Try writing...a list, a letter, a journal, a novel, a declaration. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
“Stop calling yourself an authoress. You sound like an idiotess.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“The secret ingredient in my books is, there has never been a villain.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
“This was the stuff of novels with -- yeah -- men like him on the cover.” — Erin Kellison Copy Share Image
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