I don't read much when I'm working. When I'm finished work, I don't want a thing to do with words. — Pauline Gedge Copy Share Image
An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
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“To read is to dance. A dance of love, romance,and discovery.Let us all dance! ~Confessions of a Booklover” — D.Alma Copy Share Image
“Covey set out to write a book, not on building great organizations, but on achieving great personal effectiveness.” — RosettaBooks Copy Share Image
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
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When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones. — Guillaume Musso Copy Share Image
The righting of historic wrongs has chimed with something fundamental in me since I was a young reader. I love the forensic… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
I've heard people ask, What's so sacred about a classic books that you can't change it for the modern child? Nothing is… — Frances Clarke Sayers Copy Share Image
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With the Holocaust - I wonder if a lot of Jewish writers of my generation have felt this way - it feels… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“[Books] were devices as crassly practical for storing or transmitting language, as the latest Silicon Valley miracles. But by accident, not by… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is no evidence that the author of the Book of Revelation, John of Patmos, read anything that we think of as… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
'Ghost City' was actually one of the few instances of non-fiction that I had written, and I felt that I probably said… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
“All I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape.” — Blind Melon Copy Share Image
I'm seeing more and more books by celebrity authors, and I'm not happy to see them. I'd rather see publishing budgets devoted… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Writing a novel can be solitary at times compared to screenwriting, but I don't mind that. — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
“Only two classes of books have universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.” — Ford Maddox Copy Share Image
Unfortunate and wretched are those who have respected a book they did not love and hated those they did. — Milorad Pavić Copy Share Image
I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Melancholy isn’t a sign of the book’s end; it is its inspiration. Melancholy is reading’s muse.” — Andrew Piper Copy Share Image
“I never write the storyline ahead of the novel and stick to it like glue. I prefer my writing to be organic.… — Airambooksie Copy Share Image
“do NOT go pulling things you like out of your novel because some forum person told you your idea "won't sell.” — Rachel Aaron Copy Share Image
I spend a huge amount of time writing about the book instead of writing the actual text. — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by… — Asif Ali Zardari Copy Share Image
It takes a while to get a movie together, and they don't start talking books until the movie is close to being… — Gregory Keyes Copy Share Image
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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“The deeds of the light do just as much damage as the deeds of the dark." From Lucifer's Ladder (God of the… — W.D. Frank Copy Share Image
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
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A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
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A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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