I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer. — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
How do you say 'bring me sausage and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?" "Look it up in the phrase… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
You really can’t write unless you read. You have to know what the game is all about. — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
My mother was a Book of the Month Club devotee. I remember she always looked forward to Pearl Buck's books. — Valerie Harper Copy Share Image
I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, my literature. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
I say, don't read the classics - try to discover your own classics; every life has its own. — Rudolf Flesch Copy Share Image
I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a… — Johnny Ball Copy Share Image
“Books for me were what the ocean is to the fearless explorer-deep and mysterious, boundless and soothing. I loved the smell of… — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I have this whole section in my oyster book where I talk about how New Yorkers have gotten divorced from the sea… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“Cyril Connolly, twentieth-century writer and critic, wrote that ‘words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.’ That… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share Image
The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score. It exists… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“At the end of our life, author Jack Kornfield says, the most important question is not how hard we worked or how… — Esther Earl Copy Share Image
The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
“You have two things of value: your monastery and your people. Translate the book for me, and I'll let you keep one.… — Faith Erin Hicks Copy Share Image
“You are the same today that you are going to be five years from now except for two things: the people with… — Charles Jones Copy Share Image
A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain. — Jackie French Copy Share Image
“Behind every successful woman(author) is a non-demanding husband content with a fruit-bowl.” — Andy Paula Copy Share Image
“Theory is like a book. It's full of meaningless words, a few want to read it and where stays the movie.” — Tim Goossens Copy Share Image
To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
I wish my BOOK OF LIFE was written in pencil,there are few pages I would like to erase, — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
“Of course, once you had yanked Conan the Barbarian's sword out of a book to fight off a rabid weresquirrel, "impossible" lost… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I'm not not a fan of graphic novels, but it's not like one of my pastimes, reading graphic novels. — Bel Powley Copy Share Image
“A book--the book that was, for some reason, THE book--can be reread, unchanged. Only we have changed. And that makes all the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay. — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
I'm a huge comic book fan, and I've read a lot from all different comic book outlets. — Jaimie Alexander Copy Share Image
Sometimes readers want some escapist fun, to get lost in the story. But light-hearted romantic stories can and should star all kinds… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
I don't have an ideal reader. I'm trying to reach something simple and, I believe, universal, in every single person. — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something. — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
“If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write? Now, write that book.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
