In the end you're not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“I disappeared into books when I was very young, disappeared into them like someone running into the woods.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“A spectacular novel of colonial China that should put this first-time author on the map.” - Kirkus Reviews” — Milena Banks Copy Share Image
It's also a lot easier to convince people to read an entertaining story than any other type of book! — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing. — Sergei Dovlatov Copy Share Image
“few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
There is no one 'best set-up', there are many - you can get to mate in endless ways. And - don't forget!… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
It's hard recommending books for kids, and a huge responsibility. If you get it wrong, they don't tell you they hate that… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“It hardly mattered to him that [his] book was forgotten and that it served no use; and the question of its worth… — John Williams Copy Share Image
My studio, nicknamed 'Funny Farm,' is in a hidden location. It's very private. Not only do I create my photography there, but… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
“You could get a book then. There was a book in the library about Holland. There were lovely foreign names in it… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“I once heard an author describe writing as taking bits and pieces of her experiences and observations, then she questions, dissects, and… — Laurie Brown Copy Share Image
Sin in the Second City is a masterful history lesson, a harrowing biography, and - best of all - a superfun read.… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
“Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular… — M.R. James Copy Share Image
“I perceived with a sudden novel vividness the extraordinary folly of everything I had ever done.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Books are only but a mirror of what knowledge we desire, in our minds and in our hearts. — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
“The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“These remedies that I provide in this book do not come any better than this. If they were any better, I would… — Matthew J. Murphy Copy Share Image
“It's the story of how I went from being lionized for helping bring the snipers to justice to being vilified for writing… — Charles A. Moose Copy Share Image
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
We Often Fail to Understand the Feelings of one Who Is Very Close to Our Heart. Bcoz the Book When Held Very… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Not merely one of the finest fantasy novels of recent years, but one of the finest ever. Should not be missed — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Do not fall in love was and if not should have been the first commandment in the book of Moses. — Aruho Marvin Copy Share Image
Same page, same book, different song, same hook. Everytime her nigga trippin', she on the phone with the same crook. — Kirko Bangz Copy Share Image
“A novel is born several times and dies several times, before it takes its final life form.” — Manjiri Prabhu Copy Share Image
Am I surprised that Joe Klein [pseudonymous author of Primary Colors which he denied writing] lied? No, because in my opinion reporters… — James Carville Copy Share Image
Just for me - obviously, not all writers think this - but for me, I feel like seeing my book in Target… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.” — Geraldine Solon Copy Share Image
I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
“Father is a school manqué ... He always wanted to write books. But he became rich instead, so is not allowed.” — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in… — Milorad Pavić Copy Share Image
There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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