I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Had Dr. Seuss been a slightly insane pornographer, he might have written a book like this.--reviewing Nicholson Baker's House of Holes” — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don't consider myself a dull subject. — Jayne Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Books are majical. With books we can be anyone, go everywhere, and do anything.” — Brenda Tetreault Copy Share Image
I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A lot of the time, the scripts you get to read are remakes or reboots or sequels or prequels. — Jared Harris Copy Share Image
If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think that sense of wonderment, where you walk out expecting the ordinary and are confronted by the extraordinary, is something that… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
“Does it distress you, reader, how I remind you of their sexes in each sentence? ‘Hers’ and ‘his’? Does it make you… — Ada Palmer Copy Share Image
I think it would be bad to a truly successful celebrity person, because I know these novelists where people get a cult… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“By all means let us agree that we are pattern-seeking mammals and that, owing to our restless intelligence and inquisitiveness, we will… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The three books I've written in Florida about L.A. are my best takes on the physicality of the city, as far as… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers. — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
“Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.” Charles… — Aaron Council Copy Share Image
“When you told me you wrote a book, I laughed. Then I read it, and I wasn't laughing any more. It was… — My Husband about Demon Mine Copy Share Image
Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery. — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
“Jason tilts his head toward me, his hand moving slyly across his book. Stupid. Speech. Woman. ” — Cynthia Lord Copy Share Image
Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
“I have come to the conclusion that I will definitely die before I read all the books on my To Read shelf.” — Ldc Copy Share Image
I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate. — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
Without science fiction, without the influence these books have had on me over the years, I'm not sure I would care much… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I aint perfect, so I dont expect perfection. people come with flaws. Flaws come with stories. Who wants to read a blank… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like washing an elephant: there's no good place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track… — Azgraybebly Josland Copy Share Image
The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“All I had to do was open a book - to see the stories bleeding from page to page. To see the… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves. — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough. — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
