I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Literature hasn't come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times - it's still dealing with how one resolves… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“98: I love you because I would NEVER spend three hours making this book of 100 reasons why I love you for anyone else.” — L.A. Casey Copy Share Image
When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace. — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
My mother has always been an Anglophile and taught my sister and me to love British history and literature. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Those concessions might also explain why Keynes responded to the book as he did, a response that might surprise later generations. Keynes… — Bruce Caldwell Copy Share Image
[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“I feel strongly against professionalism, against someone’s feeling he has to write a book every year to keep his name before the… — Peter Taylor Copy Share Image
“War reporter Lawrence Sheets’s edgy memoir evokes exactly the fatalism, confusion, and centrifugal forces that suddenly broke up the Soviet Union two… — Hugh Pope Copy Share Image
'Life's That Way' was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasn't written as a book. It was written as a… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
In the chapter on the nature of the atonement [in the book saving Calvinism] I argue that it is a mistake to… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I… — Zoe Foster Blake Copy Share Image
My favorite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one. — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
When the record book on you is finished, let it show your wins and losses. But don't let it show you didn't… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head. — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels. — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
I don't think I could write a book that had an ideological plan going in - I think that would be a… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Like everybody, I too believed that couples lived happily ever after. But it only happens in books. — Amrita Singh Copy Share Image
“Since we're going to dream anyway...DREAM BIG!" ~ Cindy Nord, Historical Romance Author” — Cindy Nord Copy Share Image
Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book. — Geoffrey Fisher Copy Share Image
Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars — Holless Wilbur Allen Copy Share Image
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“So I separated all my books into stacks: best friends, old friends, classic friends, new friends, and casual acquaintances. ” — Laura Jensen Walker Copy Share Image
I'm an open book. People seem to like people that are very open - accepting, and not rude. — Cupcakke Copy Share Image
The atonement chapter [from the book Saving Calvinism] shows how there are real riches in Reformed theology that most Christians today have… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“She loved to return to the world of the book, a workd in which people were willing to let go of everything… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any... on how… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
The Kindle app runs on iPads, BlackBerry, and Android devices, so you can read your books wherever you want; with Apple, you're… — Daniel Lyons Copy Share Image
“Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity.” — Donald J. Bingle Copy Share Image