“It must be though on you not being able to read, but it's not the end of the world. You might not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
You want to say the thing that will drive everybody in the direction you want to go. But as a writer you… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Unable to reach back to her book bag, she was reduced to reading the advertising cards above the heads of other passengers.… — Carol O'Connell Copy Share Image
“In the end I decided to hold onto the book, my thought being that his story was a unique one, and so… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I am a voracious reader myself. I don't stick to one genre. My only criteria is that it's a good story. I… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“Having to amuse myself during those earlier years, I read voraciously and widely. Mythic matter and folklore made up much of that… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“It is my job to create universes, as the basis of one novel after another. And I have to build them in… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“I spent more time than was strictly necessary in the plush red corridors of the Hotel Metropole in Hanoi. For some reason,… — Katie Roiphe Copy Share Image
The R.I.P.D. picture is like a graphic novel, I guess. I don't know if it's like a typical kind of comic book.… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
“When I pick up a book and read it, I want to be transported. I want to be taken someplace that I… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
Now it's dedicated to my grandparents and to both of my parents. The first book was dedicated to my mother so I… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I learned that you can't write a book in the margins of your life. I'd forgotten how much uninterrupted time it takes… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
“... Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I'm in a comic book now. That was cool. That's something that I'm still sorta reeling about, 'cause I read comics as… — Rutina Wesley Copy Share Image
“That brings me to the real reason for the title: Where does that which happens during reading a book take place? (...)… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
“She was a luxuriously made woman, with her velvety skin and curly auburn hair, and her decidedly voluptuous figure... and he was… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Wounded and nearly blind with fear, I clung to the Scriptures: 'Ask and you shall receive...' 'Pray without ceasing...' 'I will do… — Ron Hall Copy Share Image
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the children’s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories I’ve been hearing… — Paul O. Zelinsky Copy Share Image
Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Ignoring for a moment the power of the American Medical Association, we still wouldn't see a huge amount of books on neurosurgery… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
When I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I found Esau’s field guide at the bottom of my pack. Taking a candle into the bedroom, I read his book until… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
“Oranges and unicorns say the bells of St. . . .” She looked to Harriet for inspiration. “Clunicorns?” “Somehow I don’t think… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“What’s the point of having countless books and libraries, whose titles could hardly be read through in a lifetime. The learner is… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I read more than I had in years-novels, short stories, three long nonfiction books about how we had stumbled into the Iraq… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I brought you a snack," Takumi said, dropping an oatmeal cream pie onto my book. "Very nutritious," I smiled. "You've got your… — John Green Copy Share Image
The thing with Superman is that he's completely emotionally open to the reader. Meaning what he tells you is what he's feeling;… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
“ The Puffer Fish: Wherein the author flaunts his vocabulary. His father was IRA and his mother was Quebecois, and they had… — Howard Mittelmark Copy Share Image
You are my other half, without you, I'm the dance without the song. I'm the heart without the soul. Without you, I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My "mission", if you can call it that, is to connect with my readers on an emotional level and have them come… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
“It is very chivalrous of you not to want to take my virginity, and I do understand and think it's honorable, but… — Lynsay Sands Copy Share Image
At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I found a scrap book that my mom had given to me, and inside was a letter that I wrote to myself… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
