Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“If you are ever angry at him, threaten to do something to one of his books, as calling him Fred does nothing.” — Sarah Holman Copy Share Image
I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
My most fertile reading time is when I have just finished a project and haven't started another. I binge-read and surf around… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Don't settle. Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The novel that an author writes is often not the novel that the reader reads, and most of the 'messages' in a… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I was working on a book about health and wellness, and nobody was interested in that from me. Thankfully, my cowriters reached… — Perez Hilton Copy Share Image
“Michael Oldstone, in his book Viruses, Plagues, and History, wrote: “The obliteration of diseases that impinge on our health is a regal… — Molly Caldwell Crosby Copy Share Image
I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would… — Gloria Whelan Copy Share Image
“Charlotte Bronte borrowed liberally and sloppily from Joseph Sheridan le Fanu when penning Jane Eyre. The originality of this classic novel is… — Andrew Barger Copy Share Image
Take then this Book, look into it, and show me when Jesus was not forgiving. Read this diving tragedy and tell me… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
When you take time , often to reflect on the miracle of life - the miracle that you are even able to… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“A book can be a time machine, the best travel agency, a history teacher, a friend you cried and laughed with; giving,… — Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“READING A GOOD BOOK IS LIKE LIVING ANOTHER LIFE. THE BEST PART IS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIKE IT.” — Phillip Knight Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
“The great actors of history cannot be neatly tucked between the covers of a book and filed away like so many pressed… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“One habit: choosing a book and starting each day with a dedicated time of reading and gazing, becoming an apprentice to a… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on. — Richard Eder Copy Share Image
I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
A book for cheap success will still be expensive because the way to success is always costly. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's. — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
“From your parents you learn love & laughter & how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of… — Frank Shorter Copy Share Image
I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“If you steal any of the books from the library, I will know, and you'll be sorry. Jessamine Lovelace.” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“When she thinks a book is very good, what she says to herself is: yes, that's how things are. I hadn't thought… — Ellen Douglas Copy Share Image
True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“One of the advantages of reading books is that you get to play with someone else's imaginary friends, at all hours of… — Dr. SunWolf Copy Share Image
No man has ceased to believe in God before having decided that he should not exist; no book would produce atheism, and… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
