“…Read…packaged food labels like they’re the hottest thing from Oprah’s book club.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My agent will say, 'Well, it's another graphic novel.' I don't care. It's better writing than anything else that's out there. The… — Jeffrey Dean Morgan Copy Share Image
I want to always be viewed by my readers as a friend and not as an authority or an expert. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read… — Erika Johansen Copy Share Image
Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Whenever it is inspired by literature a film is elevated and the audience connects. — Saswata Chatterjee Copy Share Image
“Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling.” — Hillel F. Damron Copy Share Image
“This book does not exist. And if that doesn’t deter you from buying it, then I’m also selling frozen alien flesh, a… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“For those of us with a bookish bent, reading is a reflexive response to everything. This is how we deal with the… — Diane Schoemperlen Copy Share Image
Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“Close your mouth Lily, you look like a codfish." "I can't help it. This place looks like something out of medieval times.… — Marianne Morea Copy Share Image
“I was dissatisfied with my 1967 manuscript and decided to rewrite the book. It was the first of September, and I said… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
In the end, of course, all novelists will be judged by their novels, but let's not forget that we will also need… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate,… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“This first book’s for everyone, though almost no one wants it or would know how to read it.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
The reason I have LGBT fans is because I'm an open book; they're attracted to that. — Cupcakke Copy Share Image
As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Multiculturalism and academic feminism started disparaging works of genius on the basis of their authors' sex and race. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You know, things that might work in a book just do not work in the visual medium of movies. — Wes Ball Copy Share Image
“Oh what a feeling when you happen upon a book that seems to pour truth directly into your head.” — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
“So much is yet to come. Soon will be blankets and pillows, and books by the bed to make the stuff of… — Jim McCann Copy Share Image
“I ripped the page from my book - "I don't speak, I'm sorry." - and used it to dry her cheeks, my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We're always quick to judge an open book, sometimes it pays to read between the lines, a lesson to be learnt only… — Jasmina Siderovski Copy Share Image
Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
You do not have to protect people's pocket books. They'll do a better job of that than you will. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm on a book tour, one of the questions I always get asked is what to wear to various occasions. — Nina Garcia Copy Share Image
You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I believe that being able to communicate directly with readers is a boon. I certainly enjoy it as much as they do.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I feel like my life is pretty much on display. So much of it is working, and that's really all I want… — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
I started my work on a lot of the 'Batman' books. So I've worked on a 'Batman,' 'Spider-Man,' some of the 'X-Men'… — Brian Stelfreeze Copy Share Image
“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” ― George R.R. Martin,… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image