All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson. — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
A self-help book can't really address a problem unless it's individualized. It's not going to talk about a globalized problem. — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.” — Lisa C. Taylor Copy Share Image
“I’d like the last chapter of my life to be like a good read that you enjoyed to the end and were… — Michael Lipsey Copy Share Image
“To get involved with the following loves will bring grief to your life style: musician, author and actor.” — Daniel Bel-Tempo Copy Share Image
I like to make books. To me, it's just as great to have some book of mine be in a flea market… — Jack Pierson Copy Share Image
Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about. — Britney Spears Copy Share Image
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Books were her refuge. Having set herself to learn the Russian language, she read every Russian book she could find. But French… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
“In your novels do you lie deliberately or just out of ignorance?" Laughter. A murmur of approval. The writer hesitated a few… — José Eduardo Agualusa Copy Share Image
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
“I looked into the literature on this," said Nightingale, "and it wasn't very helpful." "There's a literature about this?" "You'd be amazed,… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America,… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
When I closed the chapter, I'll say, in the book with TNA in 2013, literally within, it was under 30 days -… — Jeff Jarrett Copy Share Image
Reader, you may ask this queston. In fact, you must ask this question. Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Your regular teachers will get mad at you. If you keep asking something again and again, they will get tired of saying… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.” — James D. Sass Copy Share Image
“I've grown addicted to the characters in my favorite novels. If only they were real...” — Devonnie A. Black Copy Share Image
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The act of sharing with readers was at first too much of an intimate thing. But it evolved into an intense necessity… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success. — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my… — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
“I have tread all three of his books and they held me spellbound interesting story. Its fiction based on fact...mmm I like!” — Harold Alvin Copy Share Image
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“Can you think of a better way than slavishly copying and removing attribution to disrespect an author” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
As a kid, I loved doing puzzles, solving riddles, and reading mystery books. I also loved animals and always had pets. — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
I want things to be better all the time. And I tend to get angry about that. Books are an opportunity to… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of Jamie Oliver, and I've got all of his books. His recipe for peas with white wine and… — Tamzin Outhwaite Copy Share Image
The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman. — Edmond De Goncourt Copy Share Image
And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
“It would be wonderful, she thought, to write a book which would help other people.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
