“Learning comes from books; penetration of a mystery from suffering.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Novels can fill in the spaces about what that emotional resonance is. — Quiara Alegria Hudes Copy Share Image
I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“He treated...my scarred as shit past and body as chapters of a book he wanted to hold in his hands and finish.” — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
“Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though.” — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
If you are anything like me --- Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome --- then you have undoubtedly read many… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours. — John Hope Copy Share Image
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We will put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It remains unbelievable to me that I have any readers beyond my own blood relations - it's a crazy, wild gift. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I’m frankly sick of all the books and movies trying to predict when Jesus will return and we’ll get to start our… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“His face is more open than an open book, like a wall of graffiti really. I realize I'm writing wow on my… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“My books are mine, and yet they are alien to me--as a child belongs to a parent and yet has a life… — Laura Kinsale Copy Share Image
“Last month I was banging on about how books were better than anything—-how just about any decent book you picked would beat… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I have come to judge a good story as one that makes me feel as if I'm losing a friend when I… — Tom Ryan Copy Share Image
“People who shine can sometimes see things that are gonna happen, and I think sometimes they can see things that did happen.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“They had started one of those wish-fulfillment kids’ adventure books, where the boy hero has exactly the qualities he needs to triumph,… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
