If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
Comic book companies are like comic book villains; they keep coming back after they die. — Jim Steranko Copy Share Image
Boys think of girls just in books: if the cover don't catch their eye, they wont bother to read what's in side — Kenzie Lynn Copy Share Image
The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Writing isn't just on the page; it's voices in the reader's head. Read what you write out loud to someone-anyone-and you will… — Donna Jo Napoli Copy Share Image
“Green goo bubbles in a cauldron in the center of all this chaos. On a pedestal in front of it, a book… — Rita Webb Copy Share Image
A lot of authors see their book being banned or challenged as a badge of honor. But for me, it's nothing but… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“Then, somehow, I got caught up in one of Kevin's World War II books - a book of excerpts from the recollections… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Our enemies must not deceive themselves-in the 2,000 years of German history known to us, our people have never been more united… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Though books were potentially harmful, novels were all the more dangerous. The path of fiction could easily mislead you into the cosmos… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
David Sedaris wrote in one of his books that people like to make children into little grown-ups, which to him is about… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
Even those who argue against fame still want the books they write against it to bear their name in the title and… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter what you are capable of. If you can't execute, you are no better than a shelved book.” — Nauman Faridi Copy Share Image
Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life.” — Hervé Le Tellier Copy Share Image
I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“That was one nice thing about books and notes. They could always wait for another time.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander. — Alphonse Daudet Copy Share Image
“If his long day were lived in a European novel, he'd become "D" when on the run or near disappeared.” — Alex Kudera Copy Share Image
What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
Like books, the Internet has saved my life. It helped me recognize that so many people I adore suffer from the same… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
Frankly I never seriously read my father's books until after he died. Up to then, there had been no point. — Jack Hemingway Copy Share Image
I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great,… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I'm in that very preliminary stage of wondering how exactly to "pressurize" the novel in some way I've never considered before. — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
The Book of Mormon is the "keystone" of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the capstone, with continuing latter-day revelation. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. It’s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a lot of authors do. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Elementary School: Yes, coloring books! Middle school: WTF is this first grade?? High school: Ok, who the f**k took my red crayon?! — 21Q Copy Share Image
