“Slow down. Make a point of revisiting passages that seem especially rich, or especially confusing, or for that matter especially offensive.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
There's something lovely about writing a book, doing what you want. I love the solitariness of it. — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
“He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words… — John Green Copy Share Image
My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
“It is just the literature that we read for 'amusement' or 'purely for pleasure' that may have the greatest, least suspected, earliest… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“No furniture is so charming as books, even if you never open them or read a single word.” — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words. — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“It is as absurd to say that a man is a drunkard because he describes an orgy or a debauchee because he… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“You are a lover of words, one day you will write a book People turn to you, because you give voice to… — Ashley Rice Copy Share Image
When I finally began to publish, my father never read my work. He'd say, 'Oh, that's your mother's sort of thing.' But… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm trying to create a collection of stories - the 'U.F.O.W.A.V.E.' songs are all stories. I haven't really taken direct lyrical influence… — King Krule Copy Share Image
“She remembered one of her boyfriends asking, offhandedly, how many books she read in a year. "A few hundred," she said. "How… — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
“Today I want to get inside a book and wrap the pages tightly around my legs and arms and chest and back… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My love of books - not just of their tactile pleasures but of their astonishing variety - was born in a book-filled… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going to bed with a good #book; or a friend who's #read one. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“I selected all my books for the possibility of some flare of candles along the road toward illumination or enchantment” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Read This SLowLy - LIFEISNOWHERE What Did U Read? LiFe Is No Where! OR LiFe IS Now Here!! LiFe Depends On The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Children ask me sometimes what book I'd take to a desert island, but I think I couldn't go to a desert island… — Mary Stolz Copy Share Image
If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero. — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!" — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great… — Kit Carson Copy Share Image
“Artistic expression is about freedom, not about imprisoning yourself as an author within the boundaries of your mother tongue.” — A.M. Bakalar Copy Share Image
I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English. — Christopher Castellani Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“A statue of the book thief stood in the courtyard... it's very rare, don't you think, for a statue to appear before… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
You can't click through a book, you can't hyperlink and jump out of it. It requires a little bit more of a… — Josh Prince Copy Share Image
I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“I have read all of James Patterson's Books except for the last 5.I have over 80 of his books.” — Bridget Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I was a bookworm in school, and in those days it was easy to get books. Bigger cities had book shops. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
