“These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
[from a reader] Whenever I feel myself resenting someone, I reach out. I have made good friends that way. — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story. — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Then, in the twentieth century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations, Digests, Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter how many copies of my book I sell. The important thing is that the person reading it likes it.” — Jennifer Raygoza Copy Share Image
I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“This is the point where the knowing, irony-infused author laughs along with his readers about his time among the aphorisms, how he… — David Carr Copy Share Image
I went to SXSW in 2011. God, that was awful. I mean, I only went because my publisher wanted me to promote… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
People make me key chains... someone attached a Dauntless symbol to a silver pen. That one is what I use to sign… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I find it very disturbing to be advertised, as I have noticed that it is the advertised authors that stink. I am… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class… — Michel Aflaq Copy Share Image
“Truly, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“A true friend is like a good book, the inside is better than the cover.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them. — Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Copy Share Image
My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“In my book, privacy is like a great pair of high heels. To be cherished.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I read a lot of books for information, like doctor books, spy books. . . . — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life. — Stephan Jenkins Copy Share Image
“I don’t believe in skipping ahead Dale. I read the book all the way through.” — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
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