If I had written a book saying, 'Ladies, your life is terrible,' I would have sold three copies. It's always better to… — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know. — William Sleator Copy Share Image
“Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple… — K. Lamb Copy Share Image
I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“My imagination lives and breathes between the pages" – Jaime Guerard, author of The Awaken Series” — Jaime Guerard Copy Share Image
“To each other, they talked at a gallop. Literature turned them on; their ideas flowed, ran back and forth like a current.… — Elizabeth Spencer Copy Share Image
This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you can learn in school or… — James Howe Copy Share Image
Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Books," he said, "are like mushrooms. They grow when you are not looking. Books increase by rule of compound interest: one interest… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
I'm interested in philosophy, I studied it, and I also admit I try to read things that are way above me. I… — Daniel Lopatin Copy Share Image
This is not a documentary. Are there essential truths that are captured by this movie? I think unquestionably the answer is yes.… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
“He believed in the unarguable notion that if a young person is lucky enough to read the right books at the right… — Charles Cumming Copy Share Image
As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Just so long as all our literature is pervaded with the thought that women are inferior, so long will our sex be… — Lillie Devereux Blake Copy Share Image
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“That is what a book is: a million little things, a thousand feelings, hundreds of experiences, all melted together and sculpted into… — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation between a man of sense… — Earl Of Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is. — Jan Neruda Copy Share Image
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to… — Jean Douchet Copy Share Image
My problem is never ideas. I've got more than I'll ever have time to write. It's all about how many I can… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.” — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“The scent of book leather and lemons enveloped him, and his head went light. Books and clean woman. Had God ever divined… — Kristen Callihan Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't doubt it for a second if any of these literature teachers had a hand-sculpted custom-made replica of Shakespeare's dick.” — Eliza Gubbins Copy Share Image
“I love the process of creating a story that will resonate in my readers lives ~ either inspiring them, educating them, or… — Kathryn Albright Copy Share Image
“As such, the first question you should be asking yourself isn’t “Is this a good book?” but "Is this really the story… — Rachel Aaron Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, I personally love the colour pink. But the gender divide over toys and books is surely worth taking… — Cathy Newman Copy Share Image
I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking. — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
“The strength of your book is your conflict. For many writers that sentence should read, “The strength of your book is your… — Debra Dixon Copy Share Image
When I have the Bible memorised, then I'll be able to go and read a couple other books. — Stephen Baldwin Copy Share Image
If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
