I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books. — John Green Copy Share Image
If there's an opportunity to tell a story through acting or directing or cinematography or a book, I will embrace that opportunity. — Costa Ronin Copy Share Image
“Dorothea was not only his wife: she was a personification of that shallow world which surrounds the appreciated or desponding author.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous lie we tell ourselves is that writing novels shouldn't feel like a job.” — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive… — David Brin Copy Share Image
I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
A number of things in 'Dhalgren' are just meant to function as mysteries. They're mysteries when the book begins, and they're mysteries… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, 'How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success'. And people… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
In 2013, before the publication of my fourth novel, I met with a stylist at Nordstrom. Since then, I've rarely shopped for… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“We sat there in a comfortable silence for a while and I picked up one of the books lying on the window… — Maria Lewis Copy Share Image
I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its… — Avi Copy Share Image
“For years I've gathered various books, sources. When I was little it might have been Tolkien, and so I would have just… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I always swore I would never write a book. But I read Clare Balding's and it was really interesting and so prettily… — Jennifer Saunders Copy Share Image
I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
The cookbooks I value the most in my collection are the ones where you hear the author's voice and point-of-view in every… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“Pulverized by literature,' thought Miss Laburnum. 'The ideal way for a librarian to die.” — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct. — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Sitting down for the actor read when you first get together, it's like the Last Supper because you don't know who will… — Miranda Otto Copy Share Image
“If you can plan ahead into the future, you will also be able to detach yourself from minor difficulties today.” — Chris Erzfeld Copy Share Image
I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Since my schooldays, I've read the translations of Bengali writers. I'm Punjabi, but I read a lot of Bengali and Urdu literature. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
I'm not a completely closed book; I'm a social person and if I see something worth sharing, I'm happy to do that. — Josh Duhamel Copy Share Image
What is face book? is a place where Boys posts joy, gets no response... and if Girl posts the same joke, she… — A'are Abolaji Ruqayheart Copy Share Image
There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended… — Ken Bruen Copy Share Image
“The real core of this book is about the open secrets that can fester in a community until an outsider raises questions.” — J. Alexander Greenwood Copy Share Image
“On an average trip he brought two physics books, a few philosophy books, several volumes of poetry, and one thesaurus” — Amanda Gefter Copy Share Image
Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The summer movies are coming out. My advice: just stay home and burn a good book. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book. — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
I'm entirely of the mindset that when it comes to books, they've got to be paper. — Akira Toriyama Copy Share Image
A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours its heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, the chief way self-published authors get the word out about their books is through the Internet. — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
“When human relationships fail . . . they fail because they were entered into for the wrong reason. —Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God, Book 1” — Katherine Woodward Thomas Copy Share Image
Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
I grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
