All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Sundays are great for a lie in, a read of the papers, a potter around at home and then brunch, which is… — Rachel Khoo Copy Share Image
“a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.” — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time. — Dick Bruna Copy Share Image
“Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction… — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
It's easy to be pessimistic. Nobody needs to be taught how. You don't need to buy a book on it. You don't… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“I did not buy a book called Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen Donaldson, which has the temerity to compare itself, on the… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“The first time I read Isaac Babel was in a college creative writing class. The instructor was a sympathetic Jewish novelist with… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes. Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange. Some, downright… — Christopher Hopper Copy Share Image
Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There are some individuals who look at graphic novels as 'canon,' and they cannot change in any way, shape or form, and… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“As the eighteenth- century author Jonathan Swift wrote, you cannot reason someone out of something he has not been reasoned into.” — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense. — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
“The poem succeeds by being 3-dimensional in the reader's mind rather than 1-dimensional words on paper.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
“You’ll get so tired of Blair Water — you’ll know all the people in it — what they are and can be… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“No matter how poor he was at communicating with people, with books he could engage in deep, quiet dialogue.” — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life. — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
I'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too. — Ice T Copy Share Image
“Talkativeness is a symptom of deep-seated pessimism. Without it there would be no pessimistic literature.” — Albert Vigoleis Thelen Copy Share Image
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag. — John Waters Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how… — Rachel Zoe Copy Share Image
I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better… — Ethel Merman Copy Share Image
It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes That all things have their center in their dying. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous, that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways" from the book of Isaiah — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that 'knowing a book by heart is like… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
