We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it. — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
“In the pages of a book, you can find the universe within a single heartbeat.” — Umesha Chathurangi Handapangoda Copy Share Image
Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Those who believe everything they read probably should refrain from reading.” — Matt Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I got expelled from the public library for putting all the 'Women's Rights' books in the fiction section. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am quite happy for people to disagree with me on a book. If I say it is a 5 star read… — Michael Edwards Copy Share Image
When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I don't think the soul is immortal, or at least not immortal in individuals, but it may be immortal as an aspect… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Where was life? It dissipated, vanished into thin air, and my life stood weighed and found wanting because it had no ready-made… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
“We have books and films where mice and hobbits and dwarves and children can save the world, and that's perfectly acceptable. But… — Ash Gray Copy Share Image
You are the meaning of my life¥ You are the dreams of my thoughts¥ You are the lyrics of my feelings¥ You… — Natalie Helouova Copy Share Image
Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books. — Francois Mitterrand Copy Share Image
... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“of the authors’ imagination and used fictitiously. Emerald Green Desiree Holt” — Desiree Holt Copy Share Image
