I never really got the chance to scream about some of the…

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

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

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

— Lydia Lunch

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

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

“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

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

— Fulton J. Sheen

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

— Christopher K. Krebs

“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

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

— Charles Lamb

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

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

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

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

— Markus Herz

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

— Betsy Lerner