“Reread that Bronte book all you want, but Jane Eyre's never going to get gender-reassignment surgery or train to become a kick-ass… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it. — Dick Bruna Copy Share Image
“Want to get your kids to read more? Try making books easily accessible. Put them where kids can easily reach and don't… — Melanie Kirk Copy Share Image
Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I am of the generation of writers who can get instant feedback from readers within hours of publication. The fan forum is… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“...the novel had reached its apogee with the marriage plot and had never recovered from its disappearance. In the days when success… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Well, every art requires appreciation, doesn't it? I mean people who paint, sculpt, or write books want an audience. that's the reason… — Margaret Powell Copy Share Image
If I give a book as a gift, it is invariably a children's book with beautiful artwork and a simple text. I… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
I buy a lot of books I never read. But that's not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
“As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging. — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“You know I always say that a healthy appetite for books leads to a girl with more than looks.” — Rachel Coker Copy Share Image
Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
Your response to literature is to do with maturity; if you don't respond to a book or a poem when you are… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“The words were before him, and yet I thought he wasn't reading them from the paper, but from the pages of his… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I am particularly wary of authors who put themselves on the cover of their own book. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do. — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
Bond's introduction: "Bond. James Bond." Repeated in 17 subsequent Bond films. Number One in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The… — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
“And don’t bet on hiding anything for long; as Charlene Li, author of Open Leadership, notes, “There is information leakage everywhere.” — Tasha Eurich Copy Share Image
My office is just overflowing with books about witches and books about 17th-century animal husbandry and agricultural farm tools from the period. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College. — Samuel Parris Copy Share Image
Judging someone before you have gotten to know them is like explaining the contents of a book youve never read. — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world… — Alice Eve Copy Share Image
I really like listening to books. I listen to them at twice the speed so I can listen to more books. — Poppy Copy Share Image
“Acknowledge your position as the author, and determine what the next pages of your story are going to say.” — Nate Green Copy Share Image
My idea of a night out is actually a night in - in pajamas, with a good book or playing 'Mario Kart.'… — Ronan Farrow Copy Share Image
A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter… — Chet Faker Copy Share Image
As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone. — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message. — Les Parrott Copy Share Image
Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
