Young readers can sense when you're not addressing what's actually going on. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Let none turn over books or scan the stars in quest of God who see Him not in man. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“She didn't know how long they stared at each other, but the look on his face made her forget about the book.” — Sasha Summers Copy Share Image
“I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I wish you could read people's feelings as easily as you can read a book. then you know whether your wasting your… — Sarah Moores Copy Share Image
“I haven't told why I wrote the book, but I haven't told you why I sneeze, either. A book is a sneeze.” — E.B. White Copy Share Image
I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature, — John Berryman Copy Share Image
What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“While we played, Meiying often sat by herself on the bench, huddled against the chill, looking at the library books on her… — Wayson Choy Copy Share Image
“I can hear all I want about sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll on the playground, but only the Girl Scouts know… — Tupelo Hassman Copy Share Image
I'm the only talk show host, I think, if there's such a category in, what's called, the book of records, to have… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Opening things up not closing them off is my job. I'm doing that for my reader. You know, Bob Gottlieb always says,… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
One hopes that with a book or movie, the reader or the audience will emerge from it thinking. That's the most you… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s devoted Beckett readers greeted each successively shorter volume from the master with a mixture of awe and… — John Banville Copy Share Image
I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Reading great books gives insight to the mind of great souls.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks. — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book. — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales. — Matt Prior Copy Share Image
My neighbors don't care that I'm an author. It's inherently ego-inhibiting. — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
