For no matter what the factual data were, all the books…

“For no matter what the factual data were, all the books written about Blacks by their conquerors reflected the conquerors viewpoints. Nothing else should…

— Chancellor Williams

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”

— Markus Herz

It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

— Anna Quindlen

I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

— Floyd Cooper

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

— Charles Lamb

“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

— Christopher K. Krebs

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

— Kevin Ansbro

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

— Andrew Lang

My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

— Karen Thompson Walker

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

— Lydia Lunch

If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

— Aesop Rock

I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer