“If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.” — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I create doubt in the reader's mind. That is what literature is for: to provoke, to raise doubts, to talk about things… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
In many ways, Bengalis and Marathis happen to be very similar. Both love theatre, literature and seafood. — Mahesh Manjrekar Copy Share Image
The person, be it lady or gentlemen who has not pleasure in a good book must be intoleranlty stupid. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Every good story needs a good ending. Don't write the beginning of a novel without knowing the end of it.” — A.D.Y. Howle Copy Share Image
It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Kk well I'm redoing this shit mainly cause I want to:) so this ones for Daniel once again lol Your a really… — Talyiah Copy Share Image
“Every superhero, every Chosen One, goes through a painful and difficult process of Becoming. On this, all the relevant literature is in… — Sam J. Miller Copy Share Image
The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Life is very difficult. There's nothing to be ashamed of by reading self-help books. If you're stuck in a dark place it… — Jim Dooley Copy Share Image
The amount of response I get, in both a negative and a positive context, is completely related to the amount of books… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I have not the courage to search through books for beautiful prayers. . . Unable either to say them all or choose… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'll never be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand as if a man were author to himself and knew no… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If our love was a story book We would meet on the very first page The last chapter would be about How… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Try reading a book while doing a crossword puzzle; that’s the intellectual environment of the Internet. BACK” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
With my stuff, I think I've tried. I've been courted. I don't want to sound like an asshole, but I've been courted… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
“ Angels are all around us, all the time, in the very air we breathe. -Eileen Elias Freeman, The Angels’ Little Instruction Book” — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
I read the script just once, and then forget it.I just deal with what I see every day on the screen and… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years. — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody. — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
“To look at those (few) books in the dawning recognition that what they furnish is not a room, but a self.” — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were… — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
I read letters and journal entries by [Georgia] O'Keeffe (which were infinitely more useful than any critical analysis of her work). — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
“There was… uh, in my book, you know,” her legs moved against his and she finished so low he barely heard her,… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“As outsiders looking in, my readers and I must reform how we think so we may open ourselves to new forms of… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“For writers, handing a manuscript off to an editor is like walking into a parole hearing. You’ve done the time but wonder… — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality. — Brad Thor Copy Share Image