“As the sweaty, alcohol fuming bodies press in on me from all directions I decide that my ideal of a good time… — Rita Stradling Copy Share Image
What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book. — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there… — E. L. James Copy Share Image
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
My job is to entertain the readers in such a manner that, when they reach the end of the book, they feel… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
“...she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.” — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I heard a story the other night about an editor who visited the Iowa Workshop and, when asked what sorts of books… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I Reread my favorite books from back to front. I start with the last chapter and read backward until I get… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
As lifelong fans of comic books, Dan Didio and myself, we definitely have our own takes on what make for successful comics… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
We'd had books in my house growing up, but we had never had anything like lectures. I had never written an essay… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“One Drop of water makes an ocean while all the books in the world make up all the knowledge in it too.” — Gabriella Goren Copy Share Image
My office-hour reading is fairly ad hoc: I generally read whatever seems relevant to what I'm editing, writing, or thinking about writing. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
“am merely mourning that so many good or lively books are dead so soon, or only imperfectly kept alive in the cheap… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I usually am thinking about my next book the second I put the last dot on the previous one that I turn… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“If we are inspired only by literature that reflects our own interests, all reading becomes a form of narcissism.” — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
There's just so much craziness out there in the world; it's like I couldn't fit them all in my books. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I love physical books, can't bear to throw them away, and am drowning under the weight of my collection, but I do… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
I think one day I can make a book about coffee shops in Hong Kong. I spent almost most of my time… — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel… — Marianne Vos Copy Share Image
All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books. — Mark Pryor Copy Share Image
A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part. — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
“Note from the authors: Yes, we have lost our minds. Be forewarned: You will lose yours too.” — Mauerer, Wolfgang Copy Share Image
I attended a Baptist church as a child and was an avid reader starting with the Bible. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“Write everyday. read everyday. You don't have to be perfect, you have to committed.” — John Hamrick Copy Share Image
“Being good-looking and interesting and having the heavy-lidded gaze of a romantic tapir does not excuse writing a foolish book. Perhaps” — Zen Cho Copy Share Image
People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
