“The Book of the Order lay open on his desk, the pages curling up from a spine stitched to last.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
“Jaimie loved the dictionary even more than the television because it is the one book that contains all others.” — Robert Chazz Chute Copy Share Image
“Reading without thinking is nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“She is certainly a world renowned author today and she is said to have a net worth more than that of the… — Kevin Johnson Copy Share Image
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading. — Alice James Copy Share Image
Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers. — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I was still in college when 'To Kill a Mockingbird' came out in 1960. I remember it had a kind of an… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Washed and waiting. That is my life – my identity as one who is forgiven and spiritually cleansed and my struggle as… — Wesley Hill Copy Share Image
“there.” Annie finished cleaning up in the kitchen, went to the makeshift office, and dropped into the swivel chair behind the desk.… — Rayven T. Hill Copy Share Image
God knows where every particle of the handful of dust has gone; he has marked in his book the wandering of every… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before... I never have had to create novels in which… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
The record books aren't going to lie. They aren't going to say I sold out. They aren't going to say anything. — Sheamus Copy Share Image
We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign. — Loretta Lynn Copy Share Image
“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I discover methods for myself and then read books that describe 'my' method. This leads me to believe that the creative well… — Gene Black Copy Share Image
Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests. — Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
People without curiosity are like houses without books: there's something unsettling about them. — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
My library is segregated into philosophy, history, general reading, travel, my own books... and only three cookbooks. — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“RITA finalist Colleen Coble is the author of several bestselling romantic suspense series, including the Mercy Falls series, the Lonestar” — Colleen Coble Copy Share Image
There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways,… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“Like the roller coaster of life...novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.” — Carmen DeSousa Copy Share Image
That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque. — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
