A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Great song lyrics are as valid a part of American literature as any novel. — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I would say 'The Chill' by Ross Macdonald is sort of a prototypical example of how the private detective genre elevates itself… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I feel like I could write a thousand books about the outdoors and natural history and the landscape. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“I could sit in a pub and tell you all the things that are written in this book, but you wouldn't fucking… — banksy Copy Share Image
I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Some looks are heavier than the thickest books because they carry the saddest stories of life!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“I want to be the apostle of self destruction. I want my book to affect man’s reason, his emotions, his nerves, his… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I… — Kim Smith Copy Share Image
Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books… — George Polya Copy Share Image
The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained in free… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“When we approach the spiritual journey with an open and teachable spirit, we will continue to gain fresh insights from the Word… — Kenneth D. Boa Copy Share Image
The people who decided in their wisdom that we're all going to go over to ebooks, they are not readers. These are… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The anxiety, which in this state of their attachment must be the portion of Henry and Catherine, and of all who loved… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
