“What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“I don’t think I like American inventions [...] I am quite sure I don’t. I read some American novels lately, and they… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Why waste the space on a stack of half-read books and periodicals, when you could turn your nightstand into a tactical toolbox?” — Clint Emerson Copy Share Image
It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood… — Bible Copy Share Image
“No book can be written till it wants to be written, till it shouts to be written, and raises up a persistent… — Jyoti Arora Copy Share Image
The concept of a midlife crisis is a well known one perpetuated by books and films. And recently the idea of a… — Oliver Robinson Copy Share Image
And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that… — Bible Copy Share Image
She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
“The author recognizes the power of the persecuting tribe referring to members of hers consistently as "snakes" or "roaches". This dehumanizing language,… — Immaculee Ilibagiza Copy Share Image
“The Untheory of Evolution, and Other Scientific Studies Including Hunting, Fishing, and Sex" by William C. Berdine needs to be available to… — William C. Berdine Copy Share Image
I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Life without Music would be a Mistake. Life without Books would be Catastrophic!” — Nandini Deka Copy Share Image
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“ 'Books had always been my best friends and all I wanted to do was lose myself in them, and better yet… — Fae Sutherland Copy Share Image
“He stopped and glared at her. “It’s a lifetime commitment in my book, lady. It’s not an arrangement you nullify when things… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people. — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
“Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!” — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I try not to read acting books any more, but they set a high bar for me very early on. — Brian J. Smith Copy Share Image
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
People sometimes think that I bring home all these old books because I'm addicted, that I'm no better than a hoarder with… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Your obligation as writers is to distinguish yourself. … The ultimate result should be a book that you write that no one… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page. — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature. — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I put a lot of pressure to keep working. And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day. I'd… — Noureen DeWulf Copy Share Image
“Every time I read a book, especially one that grabs my gus, there is another translucent layer added to what makes me,… — Arlaina Tibensky Copy Share Image
“People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped" Author unknown” — Lynelle Clark Copy Share Image
Only in movies or books or TV do we have a chance to actually like aspects of a killer. — Franka Potente Copy Share Image
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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