My ideal reader is me. And yes, my ideal reader comes with me and is forgiving. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book. — Barbara Hambly Copy Share Image
I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now. — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again. — Stephen Collins Copy Share Image
This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
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“Maybe I’ll take you to a lighthouse and kiss you like in that book about the cranberries everyone has to read in… — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“These leave-takings in novels are as disagreeable as they are in real life; not so sad, indeed, for they want the reality… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“She bit down on her lower lip, just like the heroines always did in her books. Hopefully it actually looked more sexy… — Diane Alberts Copy Share Image
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In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“Author Denise Roy talks about our attachment to our own will, calling it Plan A. “My trouble,” she says, “is that I… — Holly Sprink Copy Share Image
I tended to give a book a chance and another chance and another, sometimes seeing it all the way to the end,… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
