“Books: boring. Codes: awesome. These are the people who are running the internet.” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Transitions are critically important. I want the reader to turn the page without thinking she's turning the page. It must flow seamlessly. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes. — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom. — Frederick Forsyth Copy Share Image
“A man who looks like Frodo just spent $150 on erotica books and asked for my phone number. I considered giving him… — Syrie James Copy Share Image
I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
My mother had all these maxims-like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get… — Jennifer Tilly Copy Share Image
You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“All novels are impossible. We would not wish to read them if they were not. Can you imagine how dull a tale… — Caitlin Williams Copy Share Image
“...for some of us, books are as important as anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these… — Anne Lamont Copy Share Image
I've soaked up so much through dancing, but I also have to be still. I want to be silent and read, to… — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
“Recently there came a period when I had little to do. This was novel in a life so crammed with busy years,… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by a sense… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Next was Alice. I gave her a book by Anne Rice because she is always talking about her. And she looked at… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I am always amazed by the novel angles that people come up with for kids' Christmas books. Even if a family is… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive. — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
“There's no excuse for a dull book, a dull museum, or a dull speech. Especially when dealing with history—the most fascinating subject… — Richard Norton Smith Copy Share Image
Books has its own world and I am one of those people captivated to enter its magical door — Jermilyn Inot Copy Share Image
No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. — Ed Byrne Copy Share Image
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Perdu reflected that it was a common misconception that booksellers looked after books. They look after people. —” — Nina George Copy Share Image
Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I always give a little talk before I sign books and ask for questions. I love the Q&A sessions. We have a… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
“Our understanding of the universe is like a story without a beginning or end where the reader is creating the plot as… — Ivan Figueroa-Otero Copy Share Image
Take your hands off her, Sinclair told the guy behind me, Or they'll write books about what I'll do to you. — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it. — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
“With a lightning quick glance at me first, he reads one bumper sticker: “Member: BBB. Boys in Books are Better?” — Anne Eliot Copy Share Image
I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read? — David Markson Copy Share Image
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“And we’re going to have all the books in the world to read and when we go on trips we can take… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I was always into comic books and horror stories and a huge consumer of pop culture. And then I worked for awhile… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all. — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
