I've read the 'Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy' at least once a year since I was twelve years old. — Sean Biggerstaff Copy Share Image
Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die... — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms. — William Glasser Copy Share Image
All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I don't think my book is any more shocking than if I went out right now and brought back your local newspaper… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
My definition, a definition in the drill books from the time that General Von Steuben wrote the regulations for General George Washington,… — Chesty Puller Copy Share Image
“The novel has been the subject of several scholarly essays and has become a staple of college classes in contemporary fiction (and… — David Markson Copy Share Image
“People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“Swear words in books have always struck me as lazy and over-familiar. But the ‘c’ word is more than that. It’s used… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Love Hurts. I daresay there’s two or three poems, six novels and at least twelve songs on the subject. That’s how the… — Daniel S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“My books are likely to contain food stains and rings from my tea cups. A book is to be lived with and… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind… — Herman Koch Copy Share Image
My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them. — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!' — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I can’t talk you out of what your heart is set on. I just hope you set it on the shelf, next… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me. — John Kluge Copy Share Image
My biographers... would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided... to flip… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Some of y'all need to stop letting some of these reality TV shows be your cultural diversity class and read a book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“It's true that this is not a book you stick on a shelf. This is a story you will instead always carry… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book. COROLLARY: If you are given a take-home test, you will… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
No matter how many books I've sold, nothing can correct the fact I look like Alfred Hitchcock from the side. — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
'To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to… — Jessica Marais Copy Share Image
