If after you read something, you connect with it, you want to do it. — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really. — Jacqueline Kelly Copy Share Image
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
“Women are much more than men in touch with their emotional intelligence. That explains why women read fiction books while men stick… — M.Z.Riffi Copy Share Image
“There’s something nice about out-and-out children’s books with no sex and a happy ending—Ransome, Streatfeild, that kind of thing.” — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“That was the wonderful thing about historical novels, one met so many famous people. It was like reading a very old copy… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Poetry keep her honest, these readings. Stevie could draw up Dont see this deeper than music, dont hear it but feel the… — Wale Copy Share Image
I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films. — Ari Marcopoulos Copy Share Image
“An author is free, even here in hell, if he knows that the literary agent is almighty and that he by himself… — David Duff Tom Fahy Copy Share Image
“I read novels with the utmost pertinaity. I look upon them - I look upon good novels - as a very valuable… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
I wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
Writing a book is as different from digital curation as night and day. Digital curation is a series of split-second decisions: good/no… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
When it comes to the form the narrative will take, whether first person, third person, or Aunt Grace's cat, I usually find… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“...I reach for the book on my nightstand instead. Immersed in the story of a guy and a girl so entwined, so… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel. — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
“All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.” — Ann Marie Frohoff Copy Share Image
I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“Don't cry while you are reading the book wait until you are done reading it.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human. — Shirley Knight Copy Share Image
A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou. — Edward Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image