I can't exist without books.

'The Expats' would not exist without e-books.

— Chris Pavone

“Questions What if green were really yellow, And red really white? Would the sky be blue today, And black still tonight? What if rain…

— Alexia Purdy

How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office…

— Susanna Clarke

It's all still about having a good story. You have to have a good story as your anchor, as your main focus. So for…

— Rick Riordan

There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar…

— Cornelia Funke

Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think that much…

— David Small

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

— Oscar Wilde

In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded…

— Betsy Lerner

All books are judged by their covers until they are read.

— Maryrose Wood

“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by…

— Marilynne Robinson

But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was…

— Kwame Nkrumah

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

— Anne Bronte

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

— Neil Gaiman

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