“If I like a book, I devour it in one sitting, and then I forget a lot. It's fine with me, because… — Francesca Zappia Copy Share Image
Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Vincent liked to do things by the book, while John liked to throw the book at people.” — Justin Conboy Copy Share Image
“Live a while in these books, learn from them what seems to you worth learning, but above all, love them.” — Ranier Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture. — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and… — Asne Seierstad Copy Share Image
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? "Self. — Eden Phillpotts Copy Share Image
I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Vonnegut's earliest novels hint strongly at his familiarity with Wiener's work, The Human Use of Human Beings, especially his first novel, Player… — David Porush Copy Share Image
I'm kind of interested in learning to learn and grow and challenge myself. I think I've been very fortunate in that my… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
“If you’ve ever dreamed of playing a hand in the development of humankind, or if you just have a burning desire to… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres… — David Brin Copy Share Image
This morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“In his book Where Was God? Erwin Lutzer writes, Often the same people who ask where God was following a disaster thanklessly… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“This is the Self-Esteem Looking-Glass. You have to look in the mirror and compliment yourself.” — Malia Ann Haberman Copy Share Image
A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river.… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“The Mail III. The Night Shadows IV. The Preparation V. The Wine-shop VI. The Shoemaker Book the Second—the” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Growing up, as a kid, I loved to read. I liked to read books that were above my range. I always tried… — Hidetaka Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Writing is probably the least glamorous profession there is. This doesn't change when you become an author. — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
Life is like a book, and your ex is a chapter in your life. Why go back to that chapter if you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Eight was about the age I was when I realized that people actually produced books, they didn't just spring out of the… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
... I bid farewell to my readers in the hope that they have formed their own opinion as to the meaning of… — Raymond Keene Copy Share Image
Print books have an amazing superpower because they don't disappear when you're done with them. Books on the shelf remind you that… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“A book is like a quarrel. One word leads to another, and may erupt in blood or print, irrevocably.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it. — Dermot Healy Copy Share Image
Every book has its own ending, every life has its own story, if u don't like where Ur life has been stop… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
A tablet replacing an exercise book is not innovation, it's just a different way to make notes. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
A truce to your volumes, your studies, give o'er: for books cannot teach you love's marvelous lore. — Hafiz Of Persia Copy Share Image
“Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools)… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
