“What book(s) changed your life and why? I could probably list books for days, so I’ll just list a few favorites: The… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I would not say I was not interested in studies - it just wasn't there in me to pursue academics. I would… — Ajith Kumar Copy Share Image
When I write a book, I put everything I have into it; so the more I have, the more the books become.… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
Books have literally powered most of my life. Whether as a stress relief when doing hard things or as vacation fodder, they… — Harper Reed Copy Share Image
I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“My sort wants the book in its entirety. We need to touch it, to examine the weight of its paper and the… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“But mostly, when I look back, what I remember is not Mom rushing about; it’s Mom sitting quietly in the center of… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
I might refer at once, if necessary, to a hundred well authenticated instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I grew up learning Russian and translating English songs when I became a teenager, we got to listen to West Germany radio… — Till Lindemann Copy Share Image
Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
Aside from John Grisham, there isn't really anybody besides Tess that I've truly gotten into. But, I do like them. When I… — Sasha Alexander Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s seventy years in the future and you found this book in a stack of junk being used to block the… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin' pocket books from old ladies I told him, "Give up the dough,… — Big L Copy Share Image
The novel ceases to be looked at as a novel. Such is the overwhelming power of motion pictures. Gore Vidal pointed out… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
The title of my book is 'American Histories,' plural. And as far as I'm concerned, my reading of history is it is… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of 'A Single Shard,' I was using books… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
The little dog-eared books in the meeting-house proved poor reading ... So many of them were about unnaturally good children who never… — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
“I delete the last line, and then the entire paragraph. Lies. I am forgetting that this is not an ordinary novel, that… — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
“Great literature remains great when it says new things to new generations, and the loops of a knot quite nicely parallel the… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
“Is it our calling to understand each other, or are we not, rather, called upon to misjudge one another, to prevent there… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“Read poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t use often enough. Poetry expands the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In 2006, I published my first novel, 'In the Country of Men.' The publication of the book gave me a bigger platform… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
“There was a birthday present waiting to be read, a boxed set of the Narnia books, which I took upstairs. I lay… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I went to college - when I read Shakespeare or Dickens or Scott - I just felt that, as a citizen… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“French Louis Seymour of the West Canada Creek, who knew how to survive all alone in a treacherous wilderness, and Mr. Alfred… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtle process than the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“According to the romantic novels he’d read based on Mordenian culture, brides only went to their marriage bed after being wed with… — Vivienne Savage Copy Share Image
I recently forced myself to read a book on quantum physics, just to try and learn something new. I was confused by… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“This book is not about "homeschooling" at all. School is an artificial institution contrived by man. This book is about educating a… — Elizabeth Foss Copy Share Image
Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Of course, I'm being rude. I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particular piece of it.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Is there no context for our lives? No song, no literature, no poem full of vitamins, no history connected to experience that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the books, the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
