I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“When you read you must get out of your own skin and into the skin of the people you are reading about,… — Norah Lofts Copy Share Image
“God, a mystery, We, a visible truth, He lives within us, We find him in books.” — Neymat Khan Copy Share Image
Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
I believe that, in any novel of mine, the principal objective is the construction of the whole. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“On my coffee table at home, I have a piece of driftwood. Its sole purpose is to display a quote by Anaïs… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
I don't think film schools are mentoring kids. I think they just send them through the curriculum, so now you know how… — Rob Nilsson Copy Share Image
“. . . and in the end the logical thing would be to give up and I would give up if I… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
If we might reverently imagine ourselves scheming beforehand what kind of book the Book of God ought to be, how different would… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Unfortunately for me, most of the books I'd want to reprint were written for savvy publishers like Harlequin and Berkley who have… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
The purpose of bread and circuses is, as Neil Postman said in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, to distract, to divert… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“In a 1699 book titled Les Aventures de Telemaque, French writer François Fénelon expanded on the relationship between Mentor and Telemachus, recounting… — Tammy Heflebower Copy Share Image
With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Every author these days is an award-winning novelist. Why? Because they set up an award contest and they dub themselves the winner.” — Karen E. Quinones Miller Copy Share Image
Everyone has an opinion, and it seems that the negative voices can be the loudest, but I chose to focus on the… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
There is a British pop group called God. At a recent book signing the lead singer introduced himself and gave me a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading is a pleasure, yes, but not without effort: choosing to read novels purely because they mirror your own experience is stultifying. — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I consider Yoda to be just about the most evil character that I've ever seen in the history of literature. — David Brin Copy Share Image
“The novel, I submit, is not merely the ultimate goal. It is also the place to start.” — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Books can send you to another dimension, a dimension exclusive only for the readers.” — My Self Copy Share Image
I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts. — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
“the difference between who you are today and who you will be in five years will be the people you spend time… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little. — Honeysuckle Weeks Copy Share Image
What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
“There is no praise or criticism that is a reliable truth. Only the experience of writing a book is reliable.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Let go of Osama Bin Laden, let go of books where bombs go off and people die, let go of this war… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
“...Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.” — Brittany Hawes Copy Share Image
I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Read the Quraan throughout every month. Read the Quraan, for it will come and intercede for its readers on the Day of… — Babloo Copy Share Image
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
