A self-confessed fan of Harlan Coben, I find it difficult to not read a new Harlan Coben novel the week it comes… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author. — Karen Hesse Copy Share Image
I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing. — Jon McGregor Copy Share Image
Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way. — Richard Ellmann Copy Share Image
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Take a time off of video games and tablets, open a great book and let it take you to a whole new… — Madison Sellers Copy Share Image
That's my anxiety dream. I go to the library and all the books on my subject are out. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
If I could come out in this book and advocate complete revolution and the violent overthrow of the United States of America,… — William Powell Copy Share Image
“There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people,… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Throw away those books and cassettes on inspirational leadership. Send those consultants packing. Know your job, set a good example for the… — Dyan Machan Copy Share Image
“Still, Amelia had not allowed herself to be certain until dessert, when she’d asked him about the book that had had the… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“and dear friend, Dale McCleskey, for taking the in-depth study I wrote by the same title and reformatting it into this book.… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“...the more we do for a child the less he will do for himself. If we give him watered-down material, many explanations,… — Karen Andreola Copy Share Image
There are scenes from books I'm happy with. I tend to think my books are all broken. But then my favourite reads… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
“It's easy to write upcoming scenes in books and television shows. Trusting God to write them in real life is a lot… — Janice Thompson Copy Share Image
“Books are what I escaped to when I was a kid, and books...unless they're just really piss poor, I get swept up… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I love 'Harry Potter.' I love those books. That started because I lived with a woman who had kids who were, like,… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Writing the book was quite therapeutic at times. It's emotional, it's up and down. — Paul Mullin Copy Share Image
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“If you would like to know more about me look to the pages of my books and you'll find me in between… — Jim Cherry Copy Share Image
I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
And now my face book poppin, cuz I told all the girls I would be the hot shit. One day, this will… — Kid Cudi Copy Share Image
When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Rather than confusing the biblical writers and their readers with modern scientific concepts, God accommodated.” — Matthew Barrett Copy Share Image
“I generally give the title-page a fair chance," Roger said. "Once can't always judge books merely by the cover.” — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
Perhaps nothing is more magical then the book. Paper, glue and some words and you are taken away from where you sit,… — Obert Skye Copy Share Image
I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different. — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
If I did not have a de-stresser such as writing novels, I would lose focus at work. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
Well, there's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book. — Chris Klein Copy Share Image
Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“At the exact moment when truth erupts, the subconscious changes from wastebasket file to angel writing in a book of gold.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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