“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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
“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 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
I write with the idea that nobody will care about what I've written; I publish with the idea that nobody will care… — Lauren Grodstein Copy Share Image
As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case… — Louis Begley Copy Share Image
Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical… — Frank Lampard Copy Share Image
The Catcher in the Rye had such a deep impact on me, because it felt like it was just Holden and me.… — Rowan Blanchard Copy Share Image
I don't revise a lot when writing short stories. As far as the novel, I definitely thought more about plot. Honestly, I'm… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
With "Margaret," I remember clearly it was, you know because I did remember it clearly. I was young. I was young in… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
none of what I know is out of books. ... I prefer tactual learning. Touching, on the quick of the sore nail,… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
You must show how gruesome that death is because if you don't, then you turn into some kind of comic book and… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
“Author compares the impact of biases to his experience as an average swimmer who overcame a considerable fear of water. While the… — Shankar Vedantam Copy Share Image
When I choose the picture of the cover of the book 'Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi', I thought, gosh, many… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
