With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life. — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book! — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
“Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that… — Joshua Rogers Copy Share Image
There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal-- — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I'm in a comic book fan. I have long boxes at home. I'm a comic book collector; I'm not joking. It's just… — Tim Rozon Copy Share Image
I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“I put down my pen - Miss Fortier has confirmed my suspicions. I know exactly what caused Anne's insanity. Books. Women and… — Rachel Florence Roberts Copy Share Image
“Only that which is innate is genuine and will hold water; and every man who wants to achieve something, whether in practical… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
On her daughter, Jessica: Kids at her school will sidle up to me and say, Does Jessica know what happens in book… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
...Don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's… — Rachel Zoe Copy Share Image
I met people through Twitter whom I wouldn't have otherwise. Readers sent me story tips over direct message. Many pointed out errors,… — Maggie Haberman Copy Share Image
“fact, at times it seems as if The Confidence-Man has been aggressively constructed for the purpose of giving the reader the unpleasant… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
the damned book I am writing is like the driveling of a weak-kneed sea calf. If I were sufficiently strong minded, I… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
“This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“When I read, I was a philosopher and it was up to me to figure out the meaning of things. Reading made… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“It has become unecesssary for the police to ban books: their price alone bans them.” — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“How you, uh...How you comin on that novel... you're workin on? - Stewie Griffin, Family Guy” — Seth Mcfarlane Copy Share Image
What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things. — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise, — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” — mark twain Copy Share Image
I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it. — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
The suspense in a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist himself, who is intensely curious too about… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Music, dance, literature and the visual arts open up a rich and intensely rewarding world. It is a world that should not… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
“My novels are written in first person so you can feel the emotion of the character.” — Airambooksie Copy Share Image
Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is a lot like being a mother, only books don't talk back when they get older.” — Nandi Berry Copy Share Image
“Books inspire us to dream, and then if we let them they will help us to achieve that dream!” — Carmela Dutra Copy Share Image
It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I don't care that you can't quote my favorite movie, and you don't care that I don't know what book Will and… — Jay McLean Copy Share Image
Read your own compositions,and when you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to get enough books, don't you find? But where are we without them? Just words on the wind... Not… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I didn't finish university, I barely finished high school. All I know is from the books I've read, and the plays that… — Jacob Elordi Copy Share Image
Brazil and Germany are very similar, but in Brazil we have a much longer career. There are much more books that have… — Gabriel Ba Copy Share Image
I think the online space can be a free space, in that we are not reliant online on the publishing industry or… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
