Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again. — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
The first book I remember loving was 'Grug and the Big Red Apple.' The first film I saw in the cinema was… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“A book, too, can be a star, “explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,” a living fire to lighten the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The crimes in my books are committed by people who can't keep it together any more. They do something to express their… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
“Making you believe what he wanted you to believe was his very reason for being. Maybe his only reason. I was intrigued… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Being naturally of a serious turn, my attention was directed to the solid advantages derivable from a residence here, rather than to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
You learn so much with each book, but it's what you teach yourself by writing your own books and by reading good… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
Certain readers will read my book not because they are interested in Iraq, but because they read crime fiction. I did want… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I was kind of a weird homie; I was a weird kid. Nobody in my family loved books. I'm the only one. — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
When my mother talked about her brother, there was this light in her eyes. I thought, 'This is the basis of a… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A well-run, well-stocked library with access to great books as well as the Internet is essential. — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not… — William Osler Copy Share Image
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel. — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Her eyes like the ideal geography book: maps of pure nightmare. "The Ghost of Edna Lieberman” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
“An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which is is… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
I grew up reading 'Lord of the Rings' and comic books, so that kind of epic quality I like. — Joseph Morgan Copy Share Image
“I love entering the private world that each writer gives us through their books” — MBarreto Condado Copy Share Image
Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Third books are a scary thing. They come with the weight of so much expectation, and I've been keenly aware of that. — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“Books are living things with blood and bones, and it breaks our heart when people dissect them.” — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
