“Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels.” — Mercedes M. Yardley Copy Share Image
Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel. — Vonda N. McIntyre Copy Share Image
“The last time I saw love was in my imagination while reading a book on Thomas Jefferson. Isn’t the Constitution of the… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right… — Frank Serafini Copy Share Image
“The length of novels, poems and stories, is measured by the number of missing words; a thousand pages become one, one becomes… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I challenge those who are in business and other professions to see that there are copies of the Book of Mormon in… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
It's good to try stuff. I wrote a book that I threw away, and I think I just wrote it so I… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“2. I live in an apartment. I could never live anywhere but in an apartment. I love apartments because I lose everything.… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
You have to find a way of shutting the future out and focusing on the writing. One of the problems I'll have… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. While the… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
“What is it, Master Calligrapher, that little girls do in the way that spiders weave?" sleeve asked primly. The Calligrapher coughed, for… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Buy Fable! the book that rejuvenates your soul! makes your belly belly-laugh! turns your cares to dust!...likewise your moods, woes an wounds!...turns… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books. — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
“Agatha Christie called her books 'yarns'. A good yarn is very readable.” — Barbara Bothwell Copy Share Image
“The first rule of book club - is that nobody wants to talk about book club.” — Douglas Lewis Copy Share Image
“Anyone can write a holy book, if he feels god is calling him to do so” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me. — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
The movies have made the comic books much more valuable and more respected. — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
“We don't know the Devil's side of the story, because God wrote all the books.” — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
