My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
I just finished my 11th book last week, so I'm ready to start the next one. — Gloria Stuart Copy Share Image
I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons. — Upamanyu Chatterjee Copy Share Image
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I read "The Group" by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I'm not obsessed with books, I'm not obsessed with school and homework, and I'm not obsessed with not getting into trouble. — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
“The best lessons are often taught by the worst experiences; focus on the message and not the author.” — Gaberiel, Oris Smith Copy Share Image
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books. — Alan Turing 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
“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 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
“On the front flap, the reader was informed that the Testamento geometrico was really three books, 'each independent, but functionally correlated by… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able… — George Sand Copy Share Image
I decided to become a surgeon named Bernie who writes books and gives seminars to teach people what he has learned and… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
