I love an author the more for having been himself a lover…

It's wonderful being an author and having so many kids enjoying my books. That's always been my dream job, and I feel very lucky…

— Rick Riordan

The Internet obviously changes things; we've seen that in the music industry above all else. As an author, I'm now having to deal with…

— Misha Glenny

It is something wonderful when one can love another author. That happens so rarely, without any kind of misgivings that authors often have between…

— Liao Yiwu

“If you fall in love with a character, then you are actually falling in love with the author that wrote the character. Therefore, you…

— Heather Dowell

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book,

— William Godwin

If there is no love between the author and the story, there is no love between the reader and the story.

— Elif Safak

You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a…

— Anne Roiphe

“Every lover of books has authors whom he reads over and over again, whom he cares for as persons and not as sources of…

— Charles Horton Cooley

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

— Grenville Kleiser

“A true lover of books knows no time.”

— Rosie Alison

We all know that a book is not really a person. It isn’t a human being. But if you are a lover of books…

— Margaret Atwood

I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read…

— Asa Larsson

It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“Having a lover/friend who regards you as a living growing criatura, being, just as much as the tree from the ground, or a ficus…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés