No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
When I sit down I write very fast... if I haven't finished a book in two or three months then I think… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
The way a small child might dream of visiting Disneyland, I dreamed of writing books. Never did I think my poems would… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I must have been about 11 when I read the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which I read, over and… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
“Megiddo, the hillock where, according to the Book of Revelation, Christ and Satan would wage a climactic duel that would bring about… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“I prayed for her to leave so I could breath again. I prayed for her to buy a book so I would… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I remember that feeling when I was a young reader: finding books that were set in Sydney with Australian characters was incredibly… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
One of the best things about reading comic books, when you're a kid or an adult, is watching the characters cross-over. What… — Andrew Kreisberg Copy Share Image
The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
“It’s a natural consequence of the capacity of a bookstore or library to contain entire worlds, whole universes, and all contained between… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
I've been a Marvel reader since I was just a kid, and I've dreamed of being a Marvel writer for almost as… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
“Well, you mind your manners and don’t raise your voice. You know what your mamma used to say. Any book is a… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Kanye [West] just says the funniest analogies that are so random. I should start keeping a book - in 20 years, I'll… — Kim Kardashian Copy Share Image
I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful… — Carol Windley Copy Share Image
“If any preposterous bill were brought forward, for giving poor grubbing devils of authors a right to their own property I should… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If you gone start something finish it, never close a book without finishing its chapter. — Alyssa Tillmon Copy Share Image
I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I read books that say if you want to keep sex hot you tell a person what you want. How do you… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
“The form in which thoughts occur to a writer is rarely the same as the form in which they can be absorbed… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Our books are the deepest glimpses into our souls, the most raw and real anybody will ever find us.” — Melodie Ramone Copy Share Image
One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds but through courage and determination find their heart's desire. — Francis Ray Copy Share Image
What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
“Are you New World or Old?' 'Sounds like a novel by Henry James.' 'Never read him.' 'Don't. But that was his question… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Life is like a novel and everyday is a new page. So if a page is sad next will be happy. So… — Aldyna Threesya Copy Share Image
Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“[Books] were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually living in became too lonely or harsh… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice.… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in… — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
“The Book that made the nation was destroying the nation; the nation that had taken to the Book was rescued not by… — Mark A. Noll Copy Share Image
The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know. — Paloma Elsesser Copy Share Image
“Writers write for the same reason readers read. We want to know how it ends, too.” — Robynn Tolbert Copy Share Image
Ladies at 13, 14, 15, you should be in them books, not at someone's house with your legs open. — Anonymous Copy Share Image