For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon. — Ace Frehley Copy Share Image
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Before bed, I read a book or flip on the radio - I'm not picky, I'll just turn it on and see… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering! — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it. — David Crosby Copy Share Image
The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I am reading Ian Rankins book Doors Open and am enjoying his dark Edinburgh narrative will rate soon once I have read… — IAN RANKIN Copy Share Image
I wish I could go back and rewrite my first book, You Bright and Risen Angels; I could do a better job.… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I don't know how to write a novel in the world of cellphones. I don't know how to write a novel in… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“You might like that one. But I’ll tell you the same thing I tell my students when they complain about the depressing… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“An old book was a time capsule. When you opened the front cover, you opened a door to another world—a world accessible… — Stephen Parrish Copy Share Image
“Want to see a great company story? Read Jeff Bezos’s three-page letter he wrote to shareholders in 1997. In telling Amazon’s story in… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
I think everyone should read The Girl on The Train, especially if they loved Gone Girl. It's about Rachel, a girl who… — Kyle Copy Share Image
“On my book, Fly on the Wall and Other Stories, This intriguing debut collection of short stories displays craft, discipline and narrative… — Namita Gokhale Copy Share Image
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
You can do whatever you want. If you want to be a singer, author, book writer, basketball player, you just have to… — Jordan Clarkson Copy Share Image
“It makes me sad that grown up books don’t have pictures in them. You’re brought up with them when you’re younger, and… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
I never wanted to write 'Mamma Mia!' or 'The Book of Mormon' - they're not my thing, I don't care about them.… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
The most difficult book I have ever read was a manual on the use of iron bangles by A.J. Thompson. — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“It’s the oldest religious shortcut in the book: the easiest way to make oneself righteous is to make someone else a sinner.” — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“The author and screenwriter William Goldman says that "the key to all story endings is to give the audience what it wants,… — Jon Steel Copy Share Image
Producing came about because I never wanted to be in one of those books, Where Are They Now? — Henry Winkler Copy Share Image
You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else. — Erica Bauermeister Copy Share Image
I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
“World believers of righteousness must fight the enemies of Allah through uncompromising...” — Compton Gage Copy Share Image
Every missionary who is proclaiming the name and gospel of Jesus Christ will be blessed by daily feasting from the Book of… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality. — Terence Stamp Copy Share Image
“Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver," she had once said. "Take them away and you might as well begin counting… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“The next time I had nothing to do, I'd have to get a book on testosterone-driven behavior.” — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
