The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman. — Peter Fenton Copy Share Image
Every word I wrote in my book is documented, certified, true, and correct. The truth wins, and that is my picture. — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“At this point, there is no human way that I could read even those books I've deliberately marked as absolute must-reads. [… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
With the communication internet, whole industries have been disrupted. You're in the publishing industry, you understand that. Before, we had newspapers, magazines… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“I understand the fear that by losing contact with books on the printed page, we're somehow surrendering some aspect of our humanity,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For me, where genre ends and literature begins doesn’t matter. What matters is whether a given novel hits me with high impact.… — Donald Maass Copy Share Image
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“I was a shy girl, but when I read, I was adventurous. Books made me bolder.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
You can't control what's going to happen to the book you're about to publish. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Books open windows to the world and have the power to transform lives. — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image