“Manage me, I'm a mess Turn a page, I'm a book half unread I wanna be laughed at, laughed with just because… — All Time Low Copy Share Image
“Coming out of a dream or a book, the real world is such a deceptive and essentially miserable place.” — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I really suggest the Pendragon series to all readers unless you are afraid of gore! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“reading is like an aeroplane it allows you to travell all over with just a book in your hand” — Annakay Gordon Copy Share Image
Education is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher. — Virginia Cary Hudson Copy Share Image
With humor you have so many options with topics and length, I mean I can write humor essays in books now and… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I read the books the day before I had met with the director Catherine Hardwicke. The first I heard of it was… — Peter Facinelli Copy Share Image
When God says YES, nobody can say no. It does not take God 24hrs to change a man's story. Mordecai was a… — Akaro Copy Share Image
When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
The best moment in writing any book is when you just can't wait to get back to the writing, when you can't… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I think there's a false division people sometimes make in describing literary novels, where there are people who write systems novels, or… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
“Because while she's so pre-occupied reading... I'm so pre-occupied reading her.” — Jay McLean Copy Share Image
My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953. — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross. — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
I published a bunch of my older books in e-book format with Open Road, which is great and has tons of hard… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
One thing that's really delightful is my books tend to attract people who are funny, so I get the benefit of people… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement. — William Stafford Copy Share Image
I teach at Columbia, and I'm always looking for books I can lose myself in during the 45 minutes I'm on the train. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough? — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Nothing beats getting lost in the world of a good book with a fabulous soundtrack. — Edith Bowman Copy Share Image
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Let me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats. — Ze Frank Copy Share Image
I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
“I learned from her that the people who said you only live once were not readers. As often as you open a… — Joy Cowley Copy Share Image
“Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don’t let… — Sarra Cannon Copy Share Image
“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Of course, people say maybe there are some self-published books out there that shouldn't be out there. Well, it's the same with… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
“In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
When I was 22 years old, I thought girls would like me if I wrote a novel. I spent so much time… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
