When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“A life is similar to a book. Some chapters are boring,a few emotional, a handful memorable,others saddening,one or two thoughtful and many… — Elizabeth Adeniyi Copy Share Image
Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“When it came to monsters, she’d known the very best.'...this is a proper quote from the book by the way, the beginning… — Shehanne Moore Copy Share Image
The Psalter is the prayer book of Jesus Christ in the truest sense of the word. He prayed the Psalter and now… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen, my father gave me a first edition copy of Ray Bradbury's magnificent work, 'The Martian Chronicles.' I had… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I want to say more, but don't know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
There were [in Wilson] a lot of clues in it that you don't normally get, you know, normally you use your imagination… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
“From Unlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet Story, re: the travel book boom of the 1970s Surprisingly, none of the new developments in… — Tony Wheeler Copy Share Image
“I’ve read countless literary works that detail the longing and ache that characters have for someone they love, and over time, I… — Jessica Park Copy Share Image
“My mother was in charge of language. My father had never really learned to read - he could manage slowly, with his… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world. — Mattie Stepanek Copy Share Image
I couldn’t remember the last time I had stayed up into the squeaky hours of the night because I couldn’t put a… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“Many of the characters named in this book existed, as did the shadowy order sometimes known as the Brotherhood of St. John… — Glenn Meade Copy Share Image
In a graphic novel, you have to allow for a certain amount of freedom on the reader's part to experience it how… — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
“A visit always brings pleasure-- if not when it begins, then when it ends. (Quoted from another book)” — Emmanuel Carrère Copy Share Image
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning. — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
I knew that if I was going to write a book, I was going to have to read one, too. — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written. — Danielle de Niese Copy Share Image
“It was my sister's fault. She brought...books home before I was old enough to check them out of the library myself.” — Michael Patrick Hearn Copy Share Image
Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature. — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I write, so that everyone else, can live. The Affidavit of Niedria Dionne Kenny” — Niedria Dionne Kenny Copy Share Image
A person could change there Profile on face book and put up a different photo, but they still the same person !… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address… — James Howe Copy Share Image
Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
“If your hero's backstory is more interesting than their present story, you're writing the wrong book.” — Kristen Kieffer Copy Share Image
I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is so fundamental to the way we see story. A tremendous amount of narratives come from him - more than many… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image