If I'm making myself laugh, I figure most of my readers will be amused as well. — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Desire to learn. Desire to read. Desire to think. Desire to write.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read. — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Reading is looked at like it's corny or lame, but you'd be surprised what you can find in a book. — Jaylen Brown Copy Share Image
“Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader … as an irritating voice is to a listener.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
One of the stories that really impressed me was 'Anna Karenina.' As a novel, that made an impression on me, showing me… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“I read Greek myths. I read about far off places, Venice and Paris. I read about men who searched for things they… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
You must on no account attempt to use the squares given in the Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“If you’re looking for lollipops and rainbows while you shop for the latest best seller, you best not come to me. I… — J.L. Mac Copy Share Image
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is… — DH Lawrence Copy Share Image
I'm pretty much an open book. I've pretty much talked about anything I'm going through onstage. Between interviews and curious fans, I've… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw… — David Chase Copy Share Image
When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that I wanted… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
“This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds. — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure. — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men” — Kerry E. Wagner Copy Share Image
“When I read a book, I want you to be reading it at the same time. I” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is not up to the writer to create a masterpiece. That is what readers do.” — Bart J. Gilbertson Copy Share Image
A book store is a treasure chest. Every time you walk in one, you strike gold. — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
“Regret. It piles up around us like books we never read.” — Adam Cozad and David Koepp Copy Share Image
