Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions. — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“The beginning of a novel: start a subject, no matter where, and to have the desire to finish, start with very beautiful… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“We don't hold with book-reading," Mr. Wormwood said. "You can't make a living from sitting on your fanny and reading story-books.” — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“She might be a captive, but in this room, with a book in her hand, she could be free.” — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Tell me something boss. What do you think is the highest form of art? 'Literature," he answered without hesitation. 'Painters and sculptors… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
“I learned that there are books and there are readers; given even the worst of circumstances, they get together. In the privacy… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I think that when you pay tribute and are citing, not only through naming the authors but also through the acknowledgement of… — Simone Muench Copy Share Image
Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“I definitely haven’t been in the best place while working on this book, but I can say this much: Where there is… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
You read [Bill ] Maher's book, and he didn't take Econ 101. All his arguments about gasoline, it's not that they're right… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Move On. It's Just A Chapter In the past. But Don't Close the book, JUST THE PAGE — Ronald Dale Fuentebella Copy Share Image
“How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended. — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
“A good story defies the reader's expectations, and in doing so, brings them satisfaction.” — Thomas Maltman Copy Share Image
“Starting a novel is like standing in a field and waiting for lightning to strike.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
When I read 'Planet Terror,' it was like nothing I had ever read before remotely, and yet it has so many references. — Marley Shelton Copy Share Image
I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English… — James Delingpole Copy Share Image
To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul. — John Smith Copy Share Image
Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“My interest in books started as a child. I had a voracious appetite for reading. It’s my mom’s fault really, because she… — Catherine Cruzan Copy Share Image
“I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
I love to cook. But I'm a bit rubbish. I tend to start something and then dip into a book or have… — Isla Fisher Copy Share Image
Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have… — Moliere Copy Share Image
I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I love words; I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“She stretched beneath him, bare and aching, held captive by an entirely new form of magic, one she'd thought existed only in… — Christine Warren Copy Share Image
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