“For one person who likes Spain there are a dozen who prefer books on her.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Books are the true means of acquiring talent. If one does not read one remains ignorant, and ignorance can never produce true… — Francesco Albani Copy Share Image
I think our job is to trust our readers. I think our job is to see and to let ourselves be seen.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Coraline had watched all the videos. She was bored with her toys, and she'd read all her books.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm a reader for lots of reasons. On the whole, I tend to hang out with readers, and I'm scared they wouldn't… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“If the past was what we were meant to see. Then behind, not in front, our eyes would be. Author Unknown” — Nazarea Andrews Copy Share Image
Books don't prattle. Books don't make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It's a very satisfying partnership. — Carol Berg Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by nonmusical things a lot, whether it's a film or a book or whatever. — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
“The power of fiction is that it gives us, as readers, the opportunity to move inside another human being, to look out… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I read on my iPad when I travel. I listen to audiobooks in the car. I read books in my bedroom, where… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes.… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“But I do want to take my life's work right now, today—whether it's a book I'm writing or a phone call I'm… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
“Good writers don’t moralize, nor do they preach, but they do create longing for the true and the beautiful, and that is… — Douglas Bond Copy Share Image
Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise. — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
*two girls hitting a boy with a book* me: hey girls are hitting on you! :) — Yeah Buddy Copy Share Image
“The infinate universe can be reached through the spine of a small book.” — Andrew Hotchkiss Copy Share Image
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
