“To friends and books, and friends in books, may our stories be long and our friendships longer.” — Molly MacRae Copy Share Image
I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
For me, hip-hop was a mirror when young-adult books were not. I could see myself in a Nas song more than I… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living … — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I read a lot of true crime growing up - 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'll read it off, straight out of the book. Come, Almanack! To begin: there's Aries, or the Ram— lecherous dog, he begets… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
This is what I believe is most important: getting good books into the hands of kids - books that will make them… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“Nadia," she says, very softly. I lean forward, straining to hear. Her expression has changed, drawn, as if in pain. "She's gone,"… — Sharon Cameron Copy Share Image
“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
"The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good;" and without claiming for an instant that title of good for my book,… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
I'm just doing what I've done my whole life, which is talking to people about books and making them read. It's what… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
In my later novels, I systematically used the convention, and then a moment came - when did it come? With The Book… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
“Why did I have to look like hell when he looked like he just stepped out of a comic book?” — Lola Dodge Copy Share Image
Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Where the fat ones at, I got somethin to feed em In some cookin books the black kids never wanted to read… — Tyler The Creator Copy Share Image
“When foreigners read the Book of Acts you see inspiring stories. When we Chinese read the Book of Acts we see it… — Chinese underground Church leader Copy Share Image
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“A book of prophesy opens the doors. You need a second book to close it. Tanno Spiritwalker Kimloc” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
We must have first, to care for our readers by doing things right from the beginning. — Kira Permunian Copy Share Image
“A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library.” — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
“I prey on innocent villagers and terrify their children," he said with a nasty smile. "And sometimes when I'm feeling really evil,… — Kate Avery Ellison Copy Share Image
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“My brother has his swords, I have my books. A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41. — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
Any time you have any type of record in any record book, especially with the Lakers, it is pretty special. — Kyle Kuzma Copy Share Image
I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading old books. — George F Will Copy Share Image
Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my… — Kajol Copy Share Image
“I love books. Not just for what they contain. I love them as objects too, as ever-present reminders of what they contain,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
