No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I like writing my own stuff. If a book came along I would maybe do that. — Jody Hill Copy Share Image
I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy,… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“No man has the right to bring up children without surrounding them with books.” — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“It was as if they could read each other’s minds. No, not minds: each other’s mindlessness.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Joe learned to view the comic book hero in his formfitting costume, not as a pulp absurdity but as a celebration of… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“History is the memory of states,' wrote Henry Kissinger in his first book, A World Restored , in which he proceeded to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Books and novels in particular that grapple with quite a few things are difficult to explain, so I think that first line… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us,… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Im just a girl. I love being called pretty, but I'll never believe it. Im not always right, but I hate admitting… — Mickey Anderson Copy Share Image
There's a book called 'The Shack' - it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeting my birth mother.… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom… — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
“The historian Max Hastings wrote in his book Inferno that “it is characteristic of all conflicts that until enemies begin to shoot,… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
The Internet has made book burning impossible and redundant at the same time. — John Alejandro King Copy Share Image
“BOOK FOURTH.—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I live my life like an open book, even though it's open on the wrong page. — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
“Write the book you wish you could find on the shelf but can't.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.. — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
