England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Twitter, Facebook, Google + are the trifecta of marketing for authors (and bloggers). — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
“There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day.” — Lauren Morrill Copy Share Image
“The main principle of this book is that for both optimal health and weight loss, you must consume a diet with a… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
“Books are a weird collaboration between author and reader: You trust me to tell a good story, and I trust you to… — John Green Copy Share Image
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I… — Matthew William Goode Copy Share Image
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“While we need to stay informed about what they read and remain connected to our students, we don't need to participate in… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
I do have a personal life. I spend half of the week at home. One of those nights, I'll go out with… — Dolph Ziggler Copy Share Image
Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians,… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
“You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
“Pessoa invented The Book of Disquiet, which never existed, strictly speaking, and can never exist. What we have here isn’t a book… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Criticism can be instructive in the sense that it gives readers, including the author of the book, some information about the critic's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book… — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the… — Richard Henry Stoddard Copy Share Image
“This book does not exist. And even if it did, it wouldn’t be worth buying or reading.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading. — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
“Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.” — Dōgen Copy Share Image
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
“The thing about the literature of any country is that it is a sort of climate that one breathes,” — Jane Fletcher Geniesse Copy Share Image
The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you. — C. E. M. Joad Copy Share Image
For me to take a role, I read a script, and I think, 'Wow, I don't know how I'm going to do… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put… — Bill Wyman Copy Share Image
“I've been living in fear. I've been living only in books. Which is fine, but … I don't want to just read… — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Reading is looked at like it's corny or lame, but you'd be surprised what you can find in a book. — Jaylen Brown Copy Share Image
I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share. — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
In this scene, I'm talking about how much I don't like cookies… I'm sayin', 'Listen, guys. Have you read the book? We're… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
“And just like in his horror movies and books, people did stupid things when faced with overwhelming stress and fear.” — Hunter Shea Copy Share Image
To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I just wrote a book. But don't go and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished.” — Lawrence Welk Copy Share Image
One of the stories that really impressed me was 'Anna Karenina.' As a novel, that made an impression on me, showing me… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader … as an irritating voice is to a listener.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
