A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply. — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
“Don't leave life until life leaves you. from the book 'I Know Who You Are!” — Fatima Masood Copy Share Image
I read every biography [of Jackie Kennedy] I could get my hands on. — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
“That was one thing about books: once you read them they couldn’t be unread.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“A day out-of- doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music — that would… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'm a very tactile learner, so I need analog index cards, moving them all about, trying out various sequences for the book's… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
I will have an endless invisible night and read all those books and understand all until I am a liquid chromium cascade… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I know books, and I know how to string words together—it doesn’t mean I know how to speak about the things that… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
My grandfather bought me my first Marvel comic book when I was six years old, and since then, it has been an… — Stefan Kapicic Copy Share Image
“I take it as an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems. — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book.' Books are very long… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
“As a student I thought there was a formula of some kind that I would get hold of somewhere, and thereby become… — Andrew Loomis Copy Share Image
Amazon is increasingly dominating online commerce. People are starting their searches there, which of course threatens Google because it takes away some… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip.… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
As an author, you go into the school, it gets written about in the paper. It sucks that your book was banned,… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Evolution of Naskar (Sonnet 2693-2694) I didn't have internet while growing up, I used to save pocket money to buy nonfiction, and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I never found a book that did not have at least a little magic in it” — William Ritter Copy Share Image
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“The problem with reading a good book is trying to cope after it's finished.” — Devonnie A. Black Copy Share Image
I love meeting my readers - so the more I can talk to at one event the better! — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image