I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
I started writing serious books so late because I knew I'd be accused of riding on my father's coattails. — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
“My feathered friends were so much to me that I am constantly tempted to make this sketch of my first years a… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
If Carlos and I were books, he'd be a Nietzsche book, and I'd be a Hubert Selby book - totally different mindsets.… — Sam Fogarino Copy Share Image
The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything — Thomas Nixon Carver Copy Share Image
“But if as you read this book you're saying to yourself: "I'd rather be miserably married than be alone." Well young lady,… — Osayi Osar-Emokpae Copy Share Image
“I loved him. I couldn't pinpoint what made me so certain, but I knew it then, as surely as I knew my… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
Personally, I saw no organized malevolence toward reporters in the IDF; I'd dealt with enough Israeli soldiers to know that many of… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
“When I think of highly plotted novels I think of detective fiction or mystery fiction, the kind of work that always produces… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
If I open a book and see that the author is accusing an adversary of "infantile leftism" I shut it again right… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“I lived in the royal library, among all the books." "You resided in a... library?" "There were suites inside and great balconies… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
People don't look at someone holding a book and look down on them calling them a nerd, they don't look at a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You are the same today that you'll be five years from now except for two things: the people you meet and the… — Mac McMillan Copy Share Image
My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down. — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for inspiration. — Lamar Alexander Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of 'The Vampire Chronicles,' both the Neil Jordan film and the books themselves. — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing. — Edna Longley Copy Share Image
“If you read something, what you have written you ain't gonna like it... - It sounds horrible... so write don't read your… — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
“The titles at the head of each book were prefixed, not by the authors, but by the early transcribers.” — Robert Taylor Copy Share Image
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Anyone can write one book; for instance even politicians do it! Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“beginning of this book that the instruction in reading that it provides applies to anything you have to or want to read.… — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
“we are bad books about our favorite topics. I am my dumbest dollar & I am what is left when it learns.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You have just confirmed to me that one of the most fortunate purposes of literature is to bring like-minded people together and… — Laurence Cossé Copy Share Image
I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Basilard, can you cover our trail?” Basilard rubbed his head dubiously. Maldynado, Books, and Akstyr leave trail like marching army.” — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
“My new favorite title is How Jane Austen Ruined My Life . I don't have the courage to read it, though. I'm… — Katherine Reay Copy Share Image
“Every human has a book inside them hidden, you just need to be awakened enough, to see it.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again. — Iain Lawrence Copy Share Image
There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
