To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
My life is a story, and I am the author, but i've written in pen so the mistakes i've made cannot be… — Briana Copy Share Image
I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography. — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
“The ultimate function of a book, however, is to be read, not to be looked or picked at.” — Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon. Afterword to The Restored Finnegans Wake Copy Share Image
First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
“Victoria Devane," she said aloud. "I'm Victoria." Her lips moved in countless repetitions of the sounds... her name, her real name. It… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are… — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
One of the things that has puzzled me the most in my years of serious mystery reading is why there are relatively… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
'Goodnight Moon' is a staple of any nursery bookshelf. So, too, are 'Harold and the Purple Crayon' and 'Madeline.' These books are… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
“I have often been mildly amused when I think that the great American novel was not written about New England or Chicago.… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“Here’s a sentence in a book I’m reading: ‘We belong, of course, to a generation that’s seen through things, seen how futile… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
“He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the… — Dorothy B. Hughes Copy Share Image
I do everything from home. I broadcast commentaries for CBS News Radio every day - from home, on a disk that I… — Charles Grodin Copy Share Image
“I don't need to read nothing,' said the New Zealander. 'I was there.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them. — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I consciously try not to play favorites with my characters or my books. — Tina St. John Copy Share Image
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The people in books become more real to you than any one in actual life.” — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
