It's like I'm frozen, while the whole world is still going on around me. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books make great gifts because they're something you love that you can share. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world. — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
They say your destiny is already written. But sometimes you just have to grab a pen and become your own author. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled. — John Milton Copy Share Image
I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“What does the novel do? It tells beautiful, shapely lies which enclose hard, exact truths.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters thoughts… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing… — David Shields Copy Share Image
“Shrinking in a corner, pressed into the wall; do they know I'm present, am I here at all? Is there a written… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
“Because if someone is determined to do something evil there’s really no stopping them. It’s not the music they listen to, in… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
... people in the newspaper industry saw the web as a newspaper. People in TV saw the web as TV, and people… — Paul Ford Copy Share Image
“These questions can be used by individual readers and also in reading groups in which participants are invited to share their memories… — Marcus J. Borg Copy Share Image
“Main characters never die in books. If they did, the story would be ruined, or over.” “Everybody is a main character to… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
This is such a different time, and we are such a different-sized magazine. And yes, today the average reader is older, but… — Linda Wells Copy Share Image
My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do;… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world. — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
“You need to read some Agatha Christie, man. Why? Am I being punished?” — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
“...novels do not begin the way you want them to, but the way they want to.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things to do with my children is to read to them. — Elizabeth Vargas Copy Share Image
“The history of literature is very far from being one of simple progress.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
