I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it! — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I spend many hours in conversation with wonderful characters from fantastic books.” — Patti Roberts Copy Share Image
A book needs to be read first, not judged. A song needs to be heard first, not mocked. A person needs to… — Mee Copy Share Image
'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I've written a book; I've become a better husband and father because I'm home every day. My connection to the Hollywood world… — Isaiah Washington Copy Share Image
If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
I can write a love song or a ballad, or when I read something and it pisses me off, I know how… — Tink Copy Share Image
As you can tell from the titles of my books, I like to probe secret organizations, secret subjects. And this sometimes gets… — Ronald Kessler Copy Share Image
My first novel, 'When You Were Mine,' was a very, very personal story and drew a lot on the people in my… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
Not everybody has time to pay attention fully, or not everybody has the time to read a book. Some people refuse to… — Lil B Copy Share Image
As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“The Art of Asking is a book about cultivating trust and getting as close as possible to love, vulnerability, and connection. Uncomfortably… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
“He said that the principal function of music was to organize the details into harmonies that were intended to make us forget… — Seldon Edwards Copy Share Image
Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake… During… — William Rathje Copy Share Image
“the person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy. — Richard Allington Copy Share Image
“A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“My boy? he is even better than books. -fiction has nothing on you.” — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off. — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
