I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“A great book is a thing of mystery and beauty; it has the power to move you.” — Neil Leckman Copy Share Image
I wrote books to entertain. I'm not trying to teach anything! If I suspected the author was trying to show me how… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself. — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
“you enjoyed this book, then I’d like to ask you for a favour, would you be kind enough to leave” — Dwayne Brown Copy Share Image
When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
Usually you tend to glean much more information about your character from what other people say about you, rather than how it's… — Sean Bean Copy Share Image
“Only boring people get bored. Life may be tedius, but not if you brought a book.” — Robert Mailer Anderson Copy Share Image
“I suppose it was the worst book any man has ever written. It was a colossal tome and faulty from start to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“The process of reading a book takes a while to get used to (in this future society). It's so slow and laborious.… — Mike A. Lancaster Copy Share Image
Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' and 'Wonder Boys' and… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us… — James Wood Copy Share Image
“We all live our lives, but a reader lives a hundred other lives.” — George RR Martin Copy Share Image
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas. — M. K. Hobson Copy Share Image
Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
“You didn’t complain when I came to keep you warm last night, author” — Chris d'Lacey Copy Share Image
Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died. — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
