“In my book, there is no failure, only the unknown revealed through action.” — Marion Bekoe Copy Share Image
To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York. — Gwen Cooper Copy Share Image
I dont buy everything I read, I haven't even read everything I bought. — Bare Naked Ladies Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me.” — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt. — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad… — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
“For you, and and all the other readers who have followed the story to its conclusion” — Brian Ruckley Copy Share Image
One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different… — Gillian Cross Copy Share Image
“I've read way too much on the overused/misunderstood buzzwords "Show, don't tell!" that I'm convinced all novels should now be picture books” — Michael Kroft Copy Share Image
I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S.… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
“When the world falls asleep, authors weave the stories that are called dreams.. and when authors dare to jot down.. that's called… — Vikrmn Copy Share Image
“Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...” — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
I have adapted the whole book [Candid] into tweets of 140 characters, and these are being sent out daily, at the rate… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
“I know how you feel about me. I feel the same way. You never have to worry that you don't tell me… — Samantha Young Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the writing I responded to most - the novels and stories that compelled me, that felt like they… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“The psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson devoted a chapter in his Pulitzer Prize—winning book, Childhood and Society, to his reflections on the American… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in a story… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Erotic Romance authors are just hopeless romantics with a dirty mind.” — Audri Nichols Copy Share Image
I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“People are the same except for the books they read and the people they meet” — Charlie Jones Copy Share Image
If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image