A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books. — Francois Mitterrand Copy Share Image
I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
“I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading,” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“I bet you a million dollars there are less than five books in this whole house. What kind of life can you… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Instead of a blank canvas, school hands kids a coloring book and tells them to stay within the lines.4 What” — Tim Urban Copy Share Image
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Physical books are still my favorite, but I own an e-book reader. They're convenient for travel. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“Lately she’d been listening to books on tapes, fat womanly novels as she thought of them. Maeve Binchy, Gail Godwin, Marian Keyes.… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same… — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Part of the shabbiness of our culture, if indeed it is shabby, is that it doesn't seem to prepare people. With all… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to… — Neville Cardus Copy Share Image
When I read James Joyce, I'm not really interested in the Dublin of 1904. I'm interested in being in the presence of… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
Marvelously entertaining, Gabrielle Donnellys The Little Women Letters evokes the spirit of Louisa May Alcotts Little Women with warmth and affection. I… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
“Bookstores attract the right kind of folk. Good people like A.J. and Amelia. And I like talking about books with people who… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
There are very interesting books about these events, for instance one by a very well-known American historian named William R. Polk called… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I guess none of the sides of my hyphen are particularly subtle cultures. But perhaps there is also a sense that these… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world! — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get. — John Hurt Copy Share Image
He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential. — Stanley Walker Copy Share Image
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
My grandfather read the 'John Carter of Mars' books to me when I was young. — Daryl Sabara Copy Share Image
