If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Brita said, 'I read at home, I read in hotels, I take a book with me on a twenty-minute trip to the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read. — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
There is enough reality in my life, so I try not to read things that have too much stress. — Rulon Gardner Copy Share Image
Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both. — Michael Holroyd Copy Share Image
“You're so completely going to be in Slytherin." "I'm so completely going to be in Ravenclaw, thank you very much. I only… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“The Homeric Epic does not have to be discovered inside a book; it begins just west of Fort Worth and extends all… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I think the "crime novel" has replaced the sociological novel of the 1930s. I think the progenitor of that tradition is James… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“He doesn't understand that books don't get used up. I've tried to explain that they aren't like clothes or furniture - that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Bad things happen, and shoulders are shrugged. The most serious of events are blended with the strange. The author pulled me inside… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
Greatest misconception about Wikipedia: We aren’t democratic. Our readers edit the entries, but we’re actually quite snobby. The core community appreciates when… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
“My books nourish my soul. When I open a cover and begin to read, I go to new places, to worlds I… — Ann Hite Copy Share Image
I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being…It happens… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate. — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
“This book is about a salvation that takes place within our unknowing and dissatisfaction,” — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
“That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Authors are often sent a number of books to read for possible review and advance praise. It can be easy for new… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
Be Careful Of Books. Be Careful With Books. Be Careful Or One Can Become A Weapon-Wielder. Be Careful Or One Can Become… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat. — Ophelia Lovibond Copy Share Image
How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings! — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now.… — Dorothy Hamill Copy Share Image
“Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.” — David Benioff Copy Share Image
For 'The Book Thief,' I wanted only one outcome, and that was for the director to follow his own vision, just as… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“Have you never been so heartbreakingly lonely that you felt as though you would go mad?” - Darcia Moon, Gravitation, Book One:… — N.L. Armitage Copy Share Image
Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books]. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak… — Chris Meledandri Copy Share Image
I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha! — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller. — John Green Copy Share Image
Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship. — Ismail Kadaré Copy Share Image
Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled. — John Milton Copy Share Image
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing… — David Shields Copy Share Image
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![“[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.” quote by Horace Walpole](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/cdc/horace-walpole-3357_ambitious_french-authors-are-more-afraid-of-offend_1281451.jpg)
![“Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].” quote by Aiden Wilson Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/7c3/aiden-wilson-tozer-296_book_prayer-is-always-in-danger-of-degenerati_2931103.png)
