When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
The more I read, the more I learn, the more I discover that I know nothing. — Nick Dear Copy Share Image
Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can. — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world. — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed. — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
Pain is the body's way of telling the brain it's in trouble. Similarly, confusion is the brain's way of telling the body,… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“A book is a friend that gives all it has in return asks for nothing except its safety” — Bharath Swaminathan Copy Share Image
“He who succeeds without books is in an inconsolable darkness, on a mountain without company, on a path without a crosier, in… — Juan de Palafox y Mendoza Copy Share Image
I havent been doin much comic book writing for the last several years though, as Ive been writing television projects and a… — Bill Mumy Copy Share Image
Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“What grade does she teach?” “Eighth. Where kids make the jump from nice, innocent kids to something a lot more complicated and… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or… — Joseph Anderson Copy Share Image
My experience may be different than theirs, readers can identify with trying to save for retirement or their own kid's college fund.… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
In books I find the dead as if they were alive; in books I foresee things to come; in books warlike affairs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Authors as diverse as Matthew Arnold and George Orwell have given thought to the serious question: what is to be done about… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft, so I wrote like H.P. Lovecraft. And in my 20s, I read… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My parents came to visit every two months and brought plenty of books. — Mathias Rust Copy Share Image
I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom. — Plato Copy Share Image
