Bed is a good friend; book is a good friend; night is a good friend. Try to bring them all together. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Libraries are congenial places but unfortunately none of us like these places because we hates books and books are leading us to… — Abid Hussain Library Officer Copy Share Image
I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I have spent most of my life preferring books to people,” Irene said sharply. “Just because I like a few specific people… — Genevieve Cogman Copy Share Image
“I don't know what to say about it, except that it moved me in a way one hopes to be moved each… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. that is why I am equally fond of them all and equally… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
“Snowbound up here with you. Without books or business to occupy my time, I wonder what I’ll do,” he added with a… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
The basis of almost every argument or conclusion I can make is the axiom that the short story can be anything the… — H. E. Bates Copy Share Image
“I would outlaw literature exams entirely; I would also eschew the twin barbarities of 'attendance' and 'participation' as grading criteria, necessitated by… — Julie Schumacher Copy Share Image
When I think about a book like 'A Clockwork Orange,' which I really loved, the weird hybrid language is what I remember… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Sometimes family members will ask to be kept out of certain things that I'm writing, and I try to respect that. I'd… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I cheat on my books a lot, which is not a good thing because it's good to stick with one book and… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait.… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
My mind has become somewhat like a book. What I mean by that is that when I look at the world, I… — Avi Copy Share Image
People wanted more advice. So I finally thought I could totally put this advice into a book. — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
Nine books have been written about me, and there's not a word of truth in any of them. — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
I did end up becoming a drawer, a sketcher and a painter because of comic books, but I didn't read them. Not… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“The major difference between a relationship and a novel draft is that you hae control over your novel's outcome.” — Jordan E. Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
I read Stephen King as a junior high schooler. My father introduced me to Stephen King far too young, which I'm very… — Bridget Carpenter Copy Share Image
It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
“When I am dead and in my head And all my bones are are rotten, Take this book and think of me… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig. — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Yeah, I picked up a book and I read. You can get something out of a book, even a bad book ...… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I've no interest in going on a road trip. If I want to go on holiday, I want to sit on a… — Sam Riley Copy Share Image
The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release. — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending. — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“The Word of God is a closed Book until it opens to you. But once it opens to you, it opens up… — Benjamin Suulola Copy Share Image
It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
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