I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
“I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading,” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world! — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get. — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers. — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
“Reread that Bronte book all you want, but Jane Eyre's never going to get gender-reassignment surgery or train to become a kick-ass… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“Want to get your kids to read more? Try making books easily accessible. Put them where kids can easily reach and don't… — Melanie Kirk Copy Share Image
I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it. — Dick Bruna Copy Share Image
I had just turned 28 and sold my first book, a travel guide for vegetarians, but I'd tell people about the day… — James Bernard Frost Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure if you've noticed this yet, but Jenny Sullivan likes to overuse people's first names. It's a technique she read… — Claire Garber Copy Share Image
Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
In fact, I have no hobbies. The only thing I like to do in life is to go to the Russian Baths… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Lift up your eyes from your books, from your past, from your hurts and look upon all people with love, because when… — Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. 'Poison River' started out very slowly and simply,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential. — Stanley Walker Copy Share Image
Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
My grandfather read the 'John Carter of Mars' books to me when I was young. — Daryl Sabara Copy Share Image
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
