“someone has mixed and shuffled the words of the Book more than was right.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The books I've written the fastest were the best reviewed and sold the best. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“You just read your books and go on a hundred miles away, You ignore me.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I'm generalizing wildly, but academic books find safety in explanations that reduce the chaos of social life. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“The book is open, spine cracked, abused in a way no one with respect for paper should ever do.” — Erika Swyler Copy Share Image
“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“If the word 'recharge' only applies to your cell phone, you need this book more than you know, believe me!” — Chris C. Ducker Copy Share Image
I do read, but not as much as I'd like to. I take five books at once and just scan through them. — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
“But Toulmin and Goodfield's Fabric of the Heavens (1962.), an old book recently reprinted, is my favorite.” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you're a retailer and know that once a year you're going to get Mary Higgins Clark's book on a given date,… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
A lot of people think the best work I've done was nonfiction - the 'Brothers and Keepers' book. But I think of… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
“Methinks, Oh! vain ill-judging Book, I see thee cast a wishful look, Where reputations won and lost are In famous row called… — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
Your characters are always your children. And while you are writing, you're keeping them safe. Now they're ready to go into the… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
As in the case of many of the stories that I've written I'm not trying to editorialize. I don't want there to… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“Yes, something [book] to transport your mind from where and who and what you are. Everyone needs that. A time or two… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Over a million? A million books?” Her heart leapt and danced, and she cracked a smile. “I’d die before I even got… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“The great writer evokes the words that buried within hearts of readers.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon. — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image