To this day, 'The Duke and I' remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter Day in the future - there will be books written about… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
We believe that games are a legitimate medium, as legitimate as literature, to talk about very dark and serious things. — David Cage Copy Share Image
It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I like books that are funny, but that aren't trying to be funny. I like situational humor. — Shiloh Fernandez Copy Share Image
“I just don't understand why some people think that every book you read ought to be "improving". No one goes to the… — Catherine Jones Copy Share Image
Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and… — Timothy Egan Copy Share Image
“Oh God how subtle he would have to be, how cunning... No paragraph, no phrase even of the thousands the book must… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . .… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
“A.J. nods out of politeness, but he doesn’t believe in random acts. He is a reader, and what he believes in is… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they… — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
“Flying monkeys exist in literature, Nate,” Kerri said. “Horror writers who get laid exist in literature.” — Edgar Cantero Copy Share Image
There is no law in the world - there is no law unwritten, there's no law on the books - that's gonna… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“There was something about a book that inspired dedication and a swelling desire to possess it.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book. — Danica Patrick Copy Share Image
My daughter wrote a book called 'Kelly Tough' when she was 19 years old. It's a must-read. — Jim Kelly Copy Share Image
One book is equal to ten friends, but one friend is equal to a library...so, take care of me..:P — Asli Copy Share Image
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house. — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
“Books are the one luxury I deem a necessity. If my purchases lead us into poverty, then at least we will be… — Mark Brownlow Copy Share Image
“When a man has everything and does not know what more to do, he tries to teach his donkey to talk.” — Asne Seirstad Copy Share Image
Romance is the most read genre of fiction in the world - but people always undermine it. — Nicola Coughlan Copy Share Image
My father was a first reader in the Christian Science Church, which is similar to being a preacher. There was no drinking,… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the… — Martin Lewis Perl Copy Share Image
What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. Its always a little bittersweet, too. — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Who would have thought you could see the future by reading a book about the past?” — Damien Echols Copy Share Image
Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race. — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
