It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Librarians know books, we live books, we breathe books, we are books.” — Jenny Levine Copy Share Image
Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I… — Matthew William Goode Copy Share Image
The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you. — C. E. M. Joad Copy Share Image
“The thing about the literature of any country is that it is a sort of climate that one breathes,” — Jane Fletcher Geniesse Copy Share Image
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
“Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.” — Dōgen Copy Share Image
In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading. — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I never wish I could go back and write more, no. I spent a long, long time trying to write the book… — John Green Copy Share Image
I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people… — Tara Bray Smith Copy Share Image
I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third… — Alan Ritchson Copy Share Image
“I’ve been trying to write the perfect book since high school. e results are in a large Rubbermaid tub in my closet.… — Jason W. Freeman Copy Share Image
“Everything is a burned book, my dear maestro. Music, the tenth dimension, the fourth dimension, cradles, the production of bullets and rifles,… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“I want you to feel empowered to explore those questions without worrying that there is some secret answer somewhere resting with the… — John Green Copy Share Image
A haunting, harrowing punch to the heart, Among the Missing is flat-out brilliant. About the secrets we keep, the lives we are… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
As far as exercising goes...watch for my next book, How I died while Jogging. — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts. — Larry L. King Copy Share Image
Anyone who was once a child should have at least one children's book in them. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“It takes a week to write a book, but it takes years to write a good one.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
