“Secondhand books are haunted, according to him. Ghosts in the pages.” — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram. — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
The author wishes to thank: Good fortune, Godiva chocolates, and Slim-Fast — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“All books are butterflies, having once lived the life of a caterpillar.” — Suzanne Brandyn Copy Share Image
“Any book without a mistake in it has had too much money spent on it.” — William Collins Copy Share Image
I would write these novels about bullies in school: 'The Bullies: a Novel.' — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
There's nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings. — Leo Sayer Copy Share Image
I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die! — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Teachers try to teach me things in books but I learn better by experience. That's what life is anyways, a experience. I… — Jenna Bognar Copy Share Image
“Are you sure that’s a real spell?’ said the girl. ‘Well, it’s not very good, is it? I’ve tried a few simple… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
What's happened is that every time I go to a convention or go into a comic book shop is that people drag… — Neal Adams Copy Share Image
“I don't know if Marcus knows how important that moment was to me. How much he actually saved me from myself, from… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
By clarity I don't mean that we're always in kind of a simple area where everything is clear and comforting and understood.… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Readers should not be loaded with more information and guidance than a lively mind needs--puzzlement can be accepted, but insulting clarity is… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
“At some point in reading, we realize we have to read not just the books that we'd enjoy, but the books that… — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
My students are often asking me, 'What do you think are the most important qualities for a writer?' And one thing I… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature. — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
“People who do not read have no advantage over those who can not read.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms. — Lisa Whelchel Copy Share Image
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I like to be happy when I'm writing. If not, then how will the reader manage? — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
