Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I've spent my life arguing for greater respect between men and women and anyone who takes the time to read my books… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by penal laws. — John Adams Copy Share Image
“He had no idea who bought his books, how they acquired the money to buy them. Perhaps they were saints, perhaps they… — Adam Langer Copy Share Image
The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can't imagine the pressure to give… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate. — John Green Copy Share Image
“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
“So you read this book and, God willing, enjoyed it. Do I have to tell you how proud a mother would be… — Leah Greenburg Copy Share Image
When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the title and… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Some people are happy when they are at the sea; I'm happy when I'm standing in front of a shelf of books.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Any student of the New Testament eager to understand its Greco-Roman setting will profit greatly from this excellent book. I commend it… — Craig S. Keener Copy Share Image
“Reading two pages apiece of seven books every night, eh? I was young. You bowed to yourself in the mirror, stepping forward… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Chapter Twenty-Four: Surprise Better Title: Oh My God! I Hate Everything About This Book! I Want To Kill It With Rocks! AGH!” — Dan Bergstein Copy Share Image
“Is literature better, is politics better, for having discarded the moralist and the philosopher?” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his readers to believe it.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book? — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“If a person reads a good book—they become permanently changed. They can’t even help it. They can’t unlearn what they’ve learned. It… — Loretta Lost Copy Share Image
I like the idea that things can exist in different formats - in a gallery, a fashion ad, in books. — Juergen Teller Copy Share Image
But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods. — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in… — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby. — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book is a fortress, a place of weeping, the key to a desert,… — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man. How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
“You came out of prison incredibly buff or with an addiction to paperback novels.” — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
My dad dropped out of school in middle school, but he reads five or six books a week, and my mom reads… — Beth Macy Copy Share Image
I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
