ALSO BY TARA OAKES MY SOUL TO WAKE Book one, STAIN…

When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading. He did…

— Anne Fadiman

“…only then did I wake out of the book.”

— John McGahern

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

The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

— Benjamin Graham

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

Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society…

— Doris Lessing

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

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

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

— Fulton J. Sheen

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

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