The graphic novel is a great form that can be used to marry the book format with the movie. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
“Due to another Eugene Williams , apparently, I have added Norm to my name here. Sorry Gene.I do not have 8 books… — Eugene Williams Copy Share Image
I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“The best thing about books is that you can start wherever you like. The pages are in order, but no one will… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Teens are like books hard to read but if you look at them close enough you would understand them really well. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The library made me feel safe, as if every question had an answer and there was nothing to be afraid of, as… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
History has been my primary intellectual passion ever since, as a boy in Southern California, I began reading books on World War… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
“The censors of our age do not yet burn books, they attempt to restrict speech in the name of "offense". The tactics… — Carmine Savastano Copy Share Image
Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a matter of resisting what something made you feel before. And resisting that as a consumer is not easy. I know… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
“Maugham described the novel as “the story of a nine days wonder in a Lambeth slum” and confessed to being influenced by… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“The reading quieted his brain a little. Without Katherine and without the Theorem and without his hopes of mattering, he had very… — John Green Copy Share Image
“If you want to be a writer you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot,”… — Ann Handley Copy Share Image
“Some people read books on musicians, while I read music books. Not books on music, but literally books full of sheet music.… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how… — Jason Diamond Copy Share Image
“Never be afraid to learn from the ether...That's where knowledge lives before someone hunts it, kills it, and mounts it in a… — Sara Gran Copy Share Image
As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books. — Dan DeCarlo Copy Share Image
Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“In 1800s Paris, women were prohibited from studying the nude human form, because this would've ruined the wedding-night surprise. (Surprise! It's a… — Cracked.com Copy Share Image
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people. — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
“This particular book felt familiar, like an old friend. The characters drew me into their world, and I blocked out mine for… — Rebecca Raisin Copy Share Image
Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book… — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
I love public transportation! Who wants to sit in a car and be angry at other drivers for eight hours? I'd rather… — Hong Chau Copy Share Image
For me, the business ventures in England were far more easier. Everything was done by the book, the protocols were far more… — Raj Kundra Copy Share Image
“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You can read until you’re blue in the face, but I’d recommend writing until you’re red in the face. And ass.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
In places where people read hardcover books and eat sushi, they're not signing a five-year-old up to tackle another five-year-old. — Chris Borland Copy Share Image
Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive. — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“once she was engrossed in a good book, all other sounds faded into the background.” — Adele Abbott Copy Share Image
Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our… — Jessica Simpson Copy Share Image
The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
