One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“When you're a kid, and you first start reading grown-up books, it's like looking in a window at night at people who… — David Huddle Copy Share Image
Everyday that goes by, I feel myself becoming more and more invisible, getting covered over more thickly with darkness. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has defied practically every playbook or blue book technique in dispatching an opponent. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“...she sometimes felt so alone she worried she might vanish like the ink in an overused book. But here, with wildlife all… — Emma Törzs Copy Share Image
Don't underestimate Laura Antonelli. She's burning to do well. And then she has an extraordinary face, even without make-up. It's not with… — Luchino Visconti Copy Share Image
“[Fables] teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book.… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Our job is not to amuse our readers. Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them. Our task is to… — Tony Auth Copy Share Image
“Books are memory. They remember their contents and pass them on. They keep track of who claims ownership, who they were given… — Eileen Gunn Copy Share Image
I Was Taught To Act My Shoe Size Never My Age. I Always Judge A Book By The Cover, Never The Page.… — Sugar Babe Copy Share Image
It's cool to see wrestling fans that are also comic book creators sort of put their fandom on the page, and then… — Christopher Daniels Copy Share Image
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book. — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“dds are you've picked up this book because you're fed up with your child's distracted behavior. You're tired of the missed homework,” — Jeffrey Bernstein Copy Share Image
Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
I mistrust the term graphic novel because it sounds like a good thing to put on a tee-shirt. That's why the French… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“I was by no means a scholar, simply an interested reader with nothing to do but live and learn.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“I was always able to lose myself in reading. Books were a necessary escape I always gladly jumped into headfirst.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If 'Emotions in Motion' comes out right, I can write the book on the formula rock star. — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
Right from childhood, I have enjoyed films which belong to the thriller genre. As a kid, I would read novels written by… — Sriram Raghavan Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between an author and a writer. The author never gives up when things go wrong, but the writer… — Millicent Ashby Copy Share Image
“I looked up at the shelf that held my books. I had dozens now. Faithful friends who took me on journeys without… — Kaje Harper Copy Share Image
“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.” — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus Copy Share Image
I think I've had 16 books that purport to be a biography of me. I've never cooperated with someone. — Warren Beatty Copy Share Image
I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own. — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
“I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most important thing for me is realism. I don't like writing which does somersaults on the page, and I'm no great… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble… — Charles Stuart Calverley Copy Share Image
I like the 'Cirque du Freak' books - 'Tunnel of Blood' by Darren Shan. They're set in England. It's about vampires. — Jamie Waylett Copy Share Image
Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books,… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image