I always travel with one book. I'll read it and then leave it for someone else, and take another book. — Patrick J. Adams Copy Share Image
to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Some swore the cats had been caught pawing through the pages of open books - reading.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I read both in French and English and often a couple of books at once, mixing fiction and non-fiction. — Pauline Chalamet Copy Share Image
While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'... It was a book I read when I was younger, and it just changed… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child." — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Ideas are interesting to me, and religions are a place where ideas have been very subtly embodied for thousands of years. All… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“All I wanted to do was go back inside to the library and read a book.I used to spend all my time… — Kathryn Magendie Copy Share Image
The literature now is so opaque to the average person that you couldn't take a science-fiction short story that's published now and… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
“Franz Rosenthal, the late professor of Arabic studies, said the following about him: The modern reader can hardly fail to notice that… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
“Until a few days ago, humans had been little more than legend to him, and now here he was in their world.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Sighing, she headed back to work. She braced herself to lift the heavy lid of yet another trunk. The sight inside curled… — Catherine LaRoche Copy Share Image
Digital is not about putting up your story on the web. It's about a fundamental redrawing of journalists' relationship with our audience,… — Katharine Viner Copy Share Image
Readers must be given room to bring their own emotions to a piece so crammed with emotional content; the writer must tenaciously… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Every single person that spent a few bucks to buy a book that I wrote deserves a big thank you from my… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.” — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
I'm not really a reader, but every Thursday and Friday I read my Boxing News. I read the papers every day, but… — James DeGale Copy Share Image
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of the book and Stephen King is one of my big heroes, literary heroes, and I am a… — Andy Muschietti Copy Share Image
My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
We are all authors of our life. Unfortunately we write them in pen so we can't erase our mistakes. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“-"-A book takes me a year to write. It's too hard work for a revenge." -"If you knew how little you had… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books. Sometimes even before medicine or shelter—they wanted books for… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
In novels and autobiographies, the first positive move that the immigrant makes towards assimilation is to buy himself a suit of city… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I read Holes in 10th grade, and I havent read a full book since. The movie version with Shia LaBeouf was OK,… — Domo Genesis Copy Share Image
Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel. — John Irving Copy Share Image
...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too. — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
“The books you have read and the knowledge and inspiration you have gained can never be taken away from you.” — Paula Gruben Copy Share Image
“I am grateful to every reader, whoever you are, wherever you are. Your time has been a gift.” — Amit Majmudar Copy Share Image
We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity. — Henry James Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to go out and see the stars, not to see them in books. — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
If you're 25 years old dressed up like Superman at a comic book convention, that's great. If you're 78 and you're doing… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
