“Reading great books gives insight to the mind of great souls.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book. — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks. — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched. — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I'm always in search of those books where you don't want to stop reading, and 'Me Before You' is at the top… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“A book is like the best friend you can imagine. Once you read a book, it stays with you forever.” — Jessica McCann Copy Share Image
I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists. — Jacqueline Susann Copy Share Image
I am so fortunate to have a mom who shared with me her love for books and helped me, from my earliest… — Robin Lopez Copy Share Image
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other… — Caroline Gordon Copy Share Image
“All the world's a stage, Timmy Quinn, but it's not the only one…" The Turtle Boy (The Timmy Quinn Series (Book One)” — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
“I . . . hurried to the city library to find out the true age of Chicago. City library! After all, it… — Yone Noguchi Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be exposed to film, art, literature, culture, and then told, 'Yes, you can do that, too.' It's… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
There are lots of great characters in fiction who viewers and readers have engaged with that behave badly. Great characters can be… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Actually, screenplays were much more detailed than what I did in the book In the book I had to invent a style… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
I go to a library. There are lakhs of books; all of them are very valuable and highly informative. Now what should… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
“Within a year Ivan Dmitritch was completely forgotten in the town, and his books, heaped up by his landlady in a sledge… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales. — Matt Prior Copy Share Image
We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
My neighbors don't care that I'm an author. It's inherently ego-inhibiting. — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it. — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
“In the pages of a book, you can find the universe within a single heartbeat.” — Umesha Chathurangi Handapangoda Copy Share Image
Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Those who believe everything they read probably should refrain from reading.” — Matt Copy Share Image
... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
