As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“God is the only book that can never be touched, open and seen.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" - ” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“In books, often the bad guys have a story too, and sometimes it is just as tragic as the hero’s.” — Jennifer Megan Varnadore Copy Share Image
When you're in a play, 50 percent is the genius of the actor, 50 percent is the genius of the author. When… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
“He that reads, be it on yon Kindle or on yon book made from pulp, is he who shall not be called… — Lane Smith Copy Share Image
So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to… — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you. — Alex Winter Copy Share Image
If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done. — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
I didn't like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to summer camp… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“A sermon, well delivered, is more uncommon even than prayers well read. A sermon, good in itself, is no rare thing. It… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“To be sure, times change and applications may vary, but the original author’s meaning and intent and the subsequent principles derived from… — Eric J. Bargerhuff Copy Share Image
Books are a really fun way to get yourself in a certain mindset or mood as an actress. Also, the way people… — Emma Roberts Copy Share Image
“The name which I have selected will prepare the reader to expect no new doctrines in this volume. It is simple, unadulterated,… — J.C. Ryle Copy Share Image
They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere… — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
To book commercials, you do something to get to a callback, and once you get to the callback, you've got three minutes… — Scoot McNairy Copy Share Image
You don't look up truthiness in a book, you look it up in your gut. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Whatever is committed from a bad example, is displeasing even to its author. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
“The only bad book was a book that didn't have any pages in it.” — Chelsea M. Cameron Copy Share Image
The most important relationship the 'Guardian' has is with its readers. — Katharine Viner Copy Share Image
No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
