Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Life might be stranger than fiction, but fiction allows many writers to more accurately portray life to their readers.” — Jaime Buckley Copy Share Image
Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim… — Kate Thompson Copy Share Image
Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I have learned that nothing gets readers so fired up as saying something everyone knows is true. — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
“Anyone who tells you her life is like a book has either been reading some bad books or is not being straight… — M.J. Andersen Copy Share Image
“It strikes Werner just then as wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to sing songs, to print huge books… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Creative writer has artistic sensibility. He observes the world like any common men. But his vision observes the world quite differently. He… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I still have a lot of military contacts, and friends and readers who've served or are serving, and they react really strongly… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
“Talking with friends about books harks back to the original impulse behind storytelling, the forging of human bonds. We have told ourselves… — Brian Hall Copy Share Image
Finally, I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a… — James Wood Copy Share Image
I did the first Parker novel, in which he got caught, and the editor at Pocket Books took me to lunch and… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“Who's to blame when your kid goes nuts? Is it a blessing to not have children? 'We Need to Talk About Kevin'… — John Waters Copy Share Image
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
In every one of the 'Squickerwonker' books, we will explore a new Squickerwonker character and their vice and how their vice generally… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
“Democracy in books is, for the people, by the people, democracy on street is rule of the apes in a land of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I've read 'Autobiography of a Yogi' at different ages and interpret something new each time. — Shriya Saran Copy Share Image
I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I don't like my books being defined by their "about"-ness. So now the subtitle has just become a kind of strap-line on… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing? — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.” — William Hope Hodgson Copy Share Image
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
'Dhalgren' is the kind of book in which you can look for pretty much anything you want. I tried to put as… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“A book?" he asked. "Yeah, remember before television and computers we used to do this thing called reading?” — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“Books for the masses are always bad-smelling books: the odour of little people cling to them.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Each book takes anywhere from two to three years to complete, from concept to outline to final edits. I work on as… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
In 100 years, when you open the MMA history book, my name is the one that will be there. — Patricio Freire Copy Share Image
My idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books. — William Matthews Copy Share Image
I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“Bullying Has Been Going On For So Long, That if it Was A Disease, Mankind Would We Have A Cure or At… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“It was technological and black and thin and therefore Evil, but... it was also a book.” — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
I think I would have written more books if I'd had fewer kids or had them earlier, but I think the books… — Clyde Edgerton Copy Share Image
