“I think good promotion is every bit as important as a good product. I consider it arrogant to assume the world will… — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
“A novella is a story you can read between love making, and people are reading one now.” — R.M. Romarney Copy Share Image
I read a lot of comics growing up. My mom used to say, 'Would you please read a book?' She was worried… — Erica Durance Copy Share Image
My entire career writing novels was wrapped up around Harry Bosch. This character was too important to me to just hand off. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“a first encounter with a worthwhile book is never a complete encounter, and we are usually in error to make it a… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Oh, I like a good quote. There's a tmlubr blog I read where the author often just posts quotes. She does other… — Peter Copy Share Image
“I thought I appreciated books, but this was an alter to the book gods. It was hard not to be impressed. I… — Victoria Abbott Copy Share Image
“Life is always a novel. Our existence may cease to be a song; it may cease even to be a beautiful lament.… — Kevin Belmonte Copy Share Image
“I will find you another long-forgotten Queen Mab poem in no time. Depend on it. I refuse to let Cody or anyone… — Martin Millar Copy Share Image
MY 5 FAVORITE BOOKS!!! LOVE ALLY CARTER SPY BOOKS. THEY. ARE. THE. BEST. BOOKS... EVER!!!!!!!! u must read if u like spy,… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
I would love to play a romantic lead at some point. I would love to play the hero at some point. It… — Anthony Carrigan Copy Share Image
I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Yes, it has made me happier. Finishing them has made me happier. Before I wrote the Potter books, I'd never finished a… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.” — Ross McDonald Copy Share Image
When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book. — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
“Reading a Murakami book is like diving into the ocean only to discover that you have always been a fish. Things suddenly… — Lasse Sørnes Copy Share Image
I've always got a book in my hands, a novel in my hands. The more I get into film, the more paranoid… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
“John Bogle wrote the best “business” (LIFE!) book I’ve read in years. The (BRILLIANT!) title: Enough.” — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“A little insensitive", she whispered, loud enough that Bel and Carter could hear. "Giving the man with dementia a book called The… — Holly Jackson Copy Share Image
My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature. — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“Burying oneself in holy books and traditions, doesn't bring holiness, what does is, losing oneself in the service of others.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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“Patton would have said a warmer goodbye to his horse, The author writes on Eisenhower's cold dismissal of his wartime lover.” — Jean Edward Smith Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration. — Gillian Cross Copy Share Image
Readers are increasingly reliant on digital sources for information - and they are increasingly reliant on these sources to be accurate. — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
You know I read that if you don't have sex for a year, you can actually become re-virginised. — Charlotte York Copy Share Image
