You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“The great novel of twentieth-century New York might be the Daily News.” — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“His reading has done him no harm, for he has fought as well as read.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever.” — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
“There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.” — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
“The brain is like a muscle; books are the diet and writing is the workout.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
“Like I said, I’d slam that book with a one-star rating and return it! Except Jeff Bezos won’t let you return your… — Camilla Monk Copy Share Image
Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open. — Gustav Klimt Copy Share Image
“The bright stars of the skies are far to touch; but there are other shiny stars that you can touch easily: The… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“It burned me from within. It quickened; I was with book, as a woman is with child.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
“He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
One of the most fun things for me, as a writer, is when readers ask questions like, 'Oh, I noticed that you… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I think there's a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they're no… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“The best books — like the best music or television or movies or comics or video games — can challenge us and… — Geoffrey Reiter Copy Share Image
I read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure. It represents the Oxford that the two World Wars have destroyed with a charm that is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“For fifteen years I have been intently studying earthly life. It is true I have not seen the earth nor men, but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
After the novel was published, I came to feel that I couldn't call myself Orthodox anymore. It's so patriarchal, anti-women, anti-gay. There… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
“...I had decided to tidy up a bit. Actually it hadn't really been a choice. The situation had got out of hand,… — Gianrico Carofiglio Copy Share Image
We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I used to read a lot of Steinbeck, and I admired Roger Miller and Bob Dylan. — John Prine Copy Share Image
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids. — Jennie Garth Copy Share Image
“... to lend a book is an incitement to theft." A Reader on Reading p. 281” — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
