“Every book tells a story, so you better be ready for the adventure.” — Jessica Kinney Copy Share Image
Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine. — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
“People who read books," he went on, "tend to be dispensable. Extremely.” — Ninni Holmqvist Copy Share Image
A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
“My new book is going well. It’s practically writing itself! Actually, what I mean is I’m not writing it, my clone is.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“For propaganda, of course. It’s all in your own book. How can we persuade others to be good, without evil we can… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if it's easier to address tough themes through humor, but I do think it's more fun and makes such… — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
Jonathan Lethem's 10th novel, 'The Blot,' is engaging, entertaining, and sharp for its first two-thirds. Then it goes to hell. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“ autonomy , n . "I want my books to have their own shelves", you said, and that's how I knew it… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books. — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
“In my introduction to Warriors, the first of our crossgenre anthologies, I talked about growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, in the… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Avid readers are the most authentic creatures on the face of the earth, and their hearts and minds are not for sale… — Kopman-Owens Copy Share Image
“An author needs a lot more than one person to succumb to his literary seductive charms, but, like Saul, he must realize… — Thomas McCormack Copy Share Image
One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
“She’d opened the book she bought today. She’d started to read, from the beginning, quite quietly, out loud. It was the best… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends,… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“Most modern literary criticism is literary and nothing else—that is, it concentrates on an author's style and thinks it rather vulgar to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life. — Charles Stuart Calverley Copy Share Image
“If You don't read good books, then you are no better than an unlettered Man” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
