Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I want to inspire through example. I hope my books motivate others to open doors and windows that will help them to… — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
[Lincoln in the Bardo] is not a long book. And that meant I could obsess over it and live in it both… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“I want my books to be the illicit secret pleasure each reader is anxiously anticipating to open and savor.” — Melinda De Ross Copy Share Image
My days are filled with writing, reading, and being a mom. Some days, I get to visit schools around the country and… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
“You and Wes," she said, triumphant, "are just likethis ." She was holding a book, a paperback romance. The title, emblazoned in… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it's my destiny to remain a book-keeper for ever and for poetry and literature to remain simply butterflies that alight on… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“My Dearest Theresa, I have read this book in your garden, my love, you were absent, or else I could not have… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead of going on the… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love… — Morris West Copy Share Image
Writing is like shouting into the world. So when someone shouts back, it's a really big deal. To have people who read… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“To write a good book, you must read one book for each page of the book you are about to write.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Most of you didn't think that helping people share books would be a subversive act...Yet the fact is that you have chosen… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. — Alan King Copy Share Image
Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew. — Peter Landin Copy Share Image
In novelas, sometimes you get the most ridiculous situations, but you make the best of it. But novelas are a very special… — Genesis Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“Renee: "You know what I did when I finished Moby Dick?" David: "You harpooned the guy that sold you the book?” — John C. Stipa Copy Share Image
“I've reached that final moment of editing a book—the one where the text manifests as a living breathing person and starts slugging… — Richard Due Copy Share Image
“Leaders should determine to spend a minimum of half an hour a day reading books that feed the soul and stimulate the… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
I'm an appreciator. I love all kinds of books, and I want others to love them, too. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next. — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels. — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
If we want a book to do more than what it does, that's a condemnation. If we want it to do more… — Clive James Copy Share Image
“The Author Promise: Determine what you are going to give the reader, deliver it and never break that promise.” — Sarah Gerdes Copy Share Image
I'd like to know what I could do if I really had the time to spend on writing a book, with no… — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content. — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
“Courtship had a new rule book. Somewhere. She’d never read it and doubted anyone else in her generation had either.” — Carrie Lomax Copy Share Image
“When I think of you, and you are not here, I see you in my mind's eye always with a book in… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Sure, okay, enjoy World Book Day but celebrating reading one day a year is like "getting some" only on Valentine's Day.” — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“Nothing in this book is an attempt to prevent the really resolute misery addicts from continuing their pursuit of frustration and failure.” — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
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