“It’s only literature, I know, but it does something, or at least it says something.” — Alaa Alghamdi Copy Share Image
Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I'm famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they're finished. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
Before I read 'Twilight,' I was in a reading funk. This series brought back my love and obsession for reading. — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
“Had Job been Calvinist or Lutheran, the book of Job would have been very different. His perplexity would then have been—how God… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I like looking for myself in the whitest of pages. I like finding evidence of myself there, after being told my footprints… — Mat Johnson Copy Share Image
I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I'll go online and I'll buy my… — Joseph Bologna Copy Share Image
“What I have learned from about twenty years of serious reading is this: It is sentences that change my life, not books.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“When the fact that one is a total nonentity who’s done nothing more outstanding than eating, sleeping, and chatting with neighbors becomes… — ayn rand Copy Share Image
“(Regarding author Kim Stanley Robinson) In an era filled with complacent dystopias and escapist apocalypses, Robinson is one of our best, bravest,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“With such a complicated and crucial part of a child's education in jeopardy, there are many forces at work -- a sort… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
“Anything I run across can light up the circuitry of my brain, and set me on an adventure. To research strains of… — Ander Monson Copy Share Image
“Witches release the chapters of the past, which invites the novels of the future.” — Dacha Avelin Copy Share Image
I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The greatest challenge in writing your book is maintaining the drive to finish it.” — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake. — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“While I’d like to think this book can change your life, the reality is that true change will come only through prayer.” — Ruth Soukup Copy Share Image
I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write.… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before. — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
I do love the weird, and I realize that I write much in that tradition, so I'm happy to be counted in… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and… — Barry Corbin Copy Share Image
If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality. — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
I think when I write movies and plays and books and magazine articles, they're all storytelling, and reality is the common denominator… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the series from the beginning. — Nathalie Emmanuel Copy Share Image
The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be. — John Banville Copy Share Image
“It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life. Read more at” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“You must learn to read well, Marisa. As long as you're a good reader, you can learn anything, do anything.” — Anna Jeffrey Copy Share Image
All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History. — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
“. . .the books we don't read are full of warnings; we will either never read them or they will arrive too late.” — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world… — Caterina Scorsone Copy Share Image
Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Brubaker and Phillipss books have always been about eight years ahead of their time. — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
