I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Invariably it turns out to be who you've been reading in the last couple of weeks, and two hours or two days… — Robert Asprin Copy Share Image
I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always. — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
“It's an actual book-book. Something I thought was lost on this generation of internet fiends.” — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“That's great, but what book should I read next? What book would be a great companion” — Jason Cannon Copy Share Image
My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there. — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
In law school, we studied the famous book 'Getting to Yes,' co-written by the head of the Harvard Law School Negotiation Project. — Erin O'Toole Copy Share Image
“every time a reader leaves a book review, a crippled monkey gets a free banana. I” — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“Maybe everyone does have a novel in them, perhaps even a great one. I don't believe it, but for the purposes of… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Government has only one religion - India first! Government has one holy book - the Constitution. The Government must be immersed in… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
There are some things fundamentally off about the stance of the book. And maybe that's okay; maybe every book is flawed, and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
James Patterson is my favorite author. Very talented. I picked up reading from jail... I realized how powerful reading was in jail.… — Rich Homie Quan Copy Share Image
“You can not please all your readers all the time. Therefore, stop worrying about what others think or say. Someone will always… — Chris Mentillo Copy Share Image
My writing is of a very different kind from anything I've heard about. All this mythological material is out there, a big… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that… — June Squibb Copy Share Image
“Perhaps one of my favorite things about travelling is getting to mark and observe other readers.” — Rachel Heffington Copy Share Image
I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story… Writing is seduction. Good… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments. — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Of course, there were other sorts of literature -- theoretical, self-referencial, lachrymosely autobiographical -- but they were just dry wanks.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
'In Cold Blood' is not a thriller at all, really. It is, however, the first work of its kind: a true crime… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October. — John Leonard Copy Share Image
“The true magic of novels dwells within us individually. Each reader will interpret every single character, scene, and metaphor in a slightly… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
I'm not going to give quotes about inventing the 'beach book,' but I was certainly at the forefront of it. — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they're called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Your story should open as a door to the reader, where the action has already begun and they have to run to… — Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Life is like a book you cant get any further untill you turn the next page to see what the future holds — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Degenerates are not always criminals, anarchists, and pronounced lunatics; They are often authors and artists.” — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
