I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There's nothing like having a sympathetic reader who asks the right questions, who understands what you're trying to achieve and only wants… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you… — Kate Middleton Copy Share Image
Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I am only human.Perfect in my imperfections.My mistakes help mold me but they do not define me.Don't judge my book cover if… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio. — Ken Auletta Copy Share Image
The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“...it gave me a little plastic book with four fold-outs, maps of the city's transit system. When I wanted to go somewhere,… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
There are a lot of snobs out there who disregard these books (romance novels), but they fulfil a need. I am happy… — Sara Craven Copy Share Image
“Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher, concludes his book The Conquest of Happiness by describing a happy person thus: “Such a man feels… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“I gave you my scenario by which I play, but you can't play my character forever, can ya? ... I am reader..… — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
A lot of times it's the child that sees something and not the grownup. I love that because, when readers get older,… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
“I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Thought I will never see you again, Ive been to the North, West, East, South, looking for you, call your phone, and… — Ogunyombo Oluwseun David Copy Share Image
I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
I will read anything at all by Kate Atkinson, Daniel Woodrell, and William Kennedy, who are all fearless. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
The people who know me do not ask me about the next book or how it's going. They ask, 'Jason, are you… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be different.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Inside a book, she captures all that's lost. She journals so her words won't fly away.” — Stephanie Hemphill Copy Share Image
Life has many different chapters for us...one bad chapter doesn't mean it's the end of the book — Mercy Pheona Copy Share Image
I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
I don't think people like to read about themselves or about others as they really are. It would be too horrifying. — James Jones Copy Share Image
Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions. — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
“As if I could be that girl. That girl authors write about. That girl readers dream they were. That girl who ends… — Stevie J. Cole Copy Share Image
Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round. — David Lodge Copy Share Image
The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
I like to write books where I get a question on the radio, and I don't have an answer for it. — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their… — Eliza Acton Copy Share Image
If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen. — Marisol Nichols Copy Share Image
I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“No one can command over the images of your mind but an Author can and if you won't believe on me then… — Prakhar Srivastav Copy Share Image
Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
“Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
