I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves. — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
'Lead with LUV' is the first book I've ever done that's just a pure conversation between my coauthor and me. — Ken Blanchard Copy Share Image
I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
“I like the sounds of words. Words are very enjoyable. I like words because they are... seductive. And I like words because… — James Lusarde Copy Share Image
With 'Machine of Death,' we became the #1 bestselling book on Amazon in a single day. — Ryan North Copy Share Image
I'm a big comic book person. I love Captain America. I like John Henry. I'm hoping to play one of the superhero… — Tom Lister, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I remember how surprised I was when my first novel was about to be published and I was informed that I could… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
“These are the books that brought me closer to myself, that shaped me and my world -- I hope they'll bring you… — Sara Nisha Adams Copy Share Image
I do write about thinkers. And that's what I love about reading. My favorite books, the ones that made me sit there… — Amy King Copy Share Image
The terrible thing about the Internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents--were they the stuff… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good… — Avi Copy Share Image
Freedom and confidence are two different things, in my book. Confidence is overrated - it can be faked, whereas freedom is fearlessness. — Emily Weiss Copy Share Image
The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception. — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Everyone's waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, 'Oh, I wonder will I be in the running? — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has. — Len Wein Copy Share Image
Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
“There is nothing better than a quiet night, a cup of tea, and a quiet place to read a good book,” — Deb Pearson Copy Share Image
You can do so much crazy stuff with books that isn't necessarily being done. That's how culture stays alive - by doing… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all.” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
I care more, and I think readers do also, for characters in a state of transformation. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“Here's how I used to think you made a book: a poet comes along, mouth half open, inspired, then suddenly the idiot… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, it's that they honor working people. — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
I had a lot of funky things as a kid. I had dinosaurs and comic book stuff. I was eccentric; imagination drove… — Brian Tee Copy Share Image
I'm so not a comic book guy. The most I knew about 'The Flash,' as a little kid, was the Underoos. I… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
“Preston Nichols and Peter Moon’s 1992 book The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time” — David Wilcock Copy Share Image
Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“I dread that awkward moment when a friend hands you the book that changed his or her life, and it is a… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“when ever you read a good book somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light” — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my… — Anatoly Rybakov Copy Share Image
Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities. — Karl G. Maeser Copy Share Image
