“Since when did you start plucking books off the children's shelf, Leona?” — Elizabeth Lynn Casey Copy Share Image
The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen. — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.” — John Milton Copy Share Image
The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
An editor who is a mentor, advisor, and psychiatrist. Don't kid yourself-a good editor will make your book better. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
“Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. That is the reason I hate vulgar realism… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“To be able to talk to your heart's content about a book you like with someone is one of the greatest joys… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
One of the things we learned from that panel is the way poor communities use a library is very different from wealthy… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Even before I learned what I was, books were my escape from the world. This place . . . bookstores, libraries . . . they’re the closest thing… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
“I heard a famous author say once that the hardest part of writing a book was making yourself sit down at the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I'm fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
“What readers seek is an experience different from their own. Story is how readers dream. Story is what sells the book. The… — Eddie Jones Copy Share Image
It used to be that you would go into a writing program and what you would learn was how to write a… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
The first and most common reason for not being a fluent reader is that the child does not yet know how to… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
What I really try to do is take different pages out of different players books. — Chris Paul Copy Share Image
The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. — Dimebag Darrell Copy Share Image
“...the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon.” — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A novel is not just a work of art: It is somehow a work of life as well. — George P Elliott Copy Share Image
Each book requires a different kind of treatment and structural gambit. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
