“Books were my church but even more my native land, my place of refuge, my DP camp. I was an exile early… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed. — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us. — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in… — Andrew Wylie Copy Share Image
“I loved the True Crime Story "Fighting the Devil" by Jeannie Walker. It is such an interesting book.” — Jeannie Walker Copy Share Image
Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Asked him and he said he wasn't. Besides, nothin's real scary except on books.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“I decided each name on each spine was the person who the book had been written for, rather than who had written… — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
“A poet writing poetry, an artist creating calligraphy. An author scripting mastery with an encyclopedia intellect. From from a derelict's viewpoint, that… — Jr. Lily Copy Share Image
The shortest distance between where we are today as a nation and an effective return to increasing our freedoms and widespread prosperity… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
“their authors for a dime. Well, we couldn’t find that publisher, so we decided to do it ourselves. PubYourself has long been… — Angelina Vance Copy Share Image
You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense?… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“I don't like writing romance in my books because that's the turning point of 90% of YA sci-fi/fantasy books and, quite frankly,… — Kaya Carvajal Copy Share Image
There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This is how I show my students that I love them - by putting books in their hands, by noticing what they… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“You can disbar a lawyer, defrock a priest, but you can't un-authorize and author.” — Gordon Cope Copy Share Image
I have seen men hazard their fortunes, go on long journeys halfway around the world, forge friendships, even lie, cheat and steal,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to believe there are people that don’t read books. There’s so much magic in words and well told stories.” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
“I dont know what all this hate is about? Tupac started book of rap, Eminem finished it, Macklemore bought it for 99… — Nick gaikis Copy Share Image
“She buried herself in books because it was easier to fall in love with a fictional character than it is to deal… — Vanessa Trinita Copy Share Image
“Have the courage to read this book, for in the first place it will make you ashamed, and shame, as Marx said,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The first thing I ever learned in roller derby is to fall, and in the author world I believe that same rule… — Elizabeth J. Kolodziej Copy Share Image
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain. — James Geary Copy Share Image
I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
There are so few books for little kids that actually mention the word transgender and explain what it is in simple terms. — Jazz Jennings Copy Share Image
If you love to read, if you love nature and if you have a dog, you've got it made. — Brooke Astor Copy Share Image
I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly. — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
