The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn. — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Pages turn, chapters end...eventually you have to close the book. — Roberta Metalious Copy Share Image
“In novels, women run off with their lovers. In real life, women stay.” — Kim Wright Copy Share Image
“area (click here to view my list of the 10 top books on visual thinking).” — Chuck Frey Copy Share Image
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, and it smells good. Writing is… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It once occured to me that literature - all art really - is either talking to people about God, or talking to… — Paul Quarrington Copy Share Image
Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“had my books been any worse I would not have been invited to Hollywood and if they had been any better I… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“My brakes sound like my horn, and my car’s bumper is bumpy enough to be brail. My ideal reader would be a… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too. — Sarah Mlynowski Copy Share Image
“An author is an expert in the written word. The author must make a choice; to either trust and support the filmmaker’s… — Sarah Gerdes Copy Share Image
Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already… — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“I’ve read science fiction and fantasy all my life – though when you’re a child, they just call that “books.” The first… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I have been interested in the 12th century since my 20s when it was very fashionable to say of anybody with whom… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
I grew up feeling voiceless and powerless as a kid. I turned to books - fantasy books in particular - to give… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abiding testimony… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
