Life is to short to waste time looking things up in a book. Just go to Google! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy. — Edith Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I would like my novels to be read the way I read the novels I love. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I really wanna throw a book at someones face and be like, I Facebooked you! — Melania Copy Share Image
I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book. — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that… — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
“But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that… — John Irving Copy Share Image
None of us, of course, will ever read all the books we'd like, but we can still make a stab at it. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
There will come a time when nobody reads my books and no one remembers who I was. And in the meantime, I'll… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“A story is a great way to describe your vision. Unlike a list of requirements, it helps the reader understand what’s important… — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
You are the author of your life, unfortunately you are writing in pen and cannot erase your mistakes — Jerald Delacruz Copy Share Image
“if we want to read an old book, perhaps just as it was read on the day it was written, we cannot… — Joshua D. Broggi Copy Share Image
“There, I said to myself, are the reasons for the silence and darkness that surround the library: it is the preserve of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Read. Read them all. Read the books you love, and try to read books you don’t. Read the genres you love, but… — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
It brings a smile to my face every time I look in the record book and see my name with the likes… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
“This book is the synthesis of, on one hand, the no-nonsense practitioner of uncertainty who spent his professional life trying to resist… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they… — John Green Copy Share Image
“In my book, if you want to be treated like an old person, you have to look like one. That means no… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
You know how some people say that they can only read one story a day from this or that collection? If that's… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image