“Every book your read is an opportunity for self-growth and expansion.” — Rachel V Perry Copy Share Image
There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Don't settle. Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One habit: choosing a book and starting each day with a dedicated time of reading and gazing, becoming an apprentice to a… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on. — Richard Eder Copy Share Image
“The great actors of history cannot be neatly tucked between the covers of a book and filed away like so many pressed… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's. — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
“From your parents you learn love & laughter & how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
“Start with clothes, then move on to books, papers, komono (miscellany), and finally things with sentimental value. If you reduce what you… — Marie Kondō Copy Share Image
“Most of us live in two worlds - our real world and the one we build or spin for ourselves out of… — Julia L. Sauer Copy Share Image
“Natural science, economics, and politics depend on literature, philosophy, and religion for educating the imagination... we cannot oppose facts to values, but...… — Jens Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
“The insights, interpretations both of theory and fact, and the implicit values of this book are inevitably my own. But whether or… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions,… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
“In those days, living as we did in the country, without the dubious benefits of radio or television, we had to rely… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
“started reading a really good book by a new-to-me author who wrote alternate reality versions of Brontë novels and spent the next… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
I'm all for crossovers if they benefit the individual books. — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
I love to travel, but when I really want to escape, I read a book. — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
