Maybe we all need to leave our children with a value legacy, and not a financial one. A value for things with… — Lakshmi Pratury Copy Share Image
“I’m working on a large project which I hope will become a book. A war book.’ ‘Hasn’t someone already written that one?” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
Seán Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
I feel, holding books, accommodating their weight and breathing their dust, an abiding love. I trust them, in a way that I… — Lori Lansens Copy Share Image
How can you not understand?" He pointed at her books. "You read novels. Obviously, I'm here to rescue you. Don't I look… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people – mothers, children, babies, civilians – lost their lives as… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
We live in the best of worlds. But still, it's like we've lost something on the way to here: a sense of… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
What better way to learn about life in the ocean--and how we are changing it--than through stories of blind zombie worms, immortal… — Enric Sala Copy Share Image
It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
As a youngster, I had friends who became lawyers and doctors, and I was as idealistic as anybody. When I was in… — William Sanderson Copy Share Image
Publishing is a business. It's about squeezing every last dollar out of every available source, and the most vulnerable source is the… — Thomas Hauser Copy Share Image
“I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time, because the first… — Laura Nowlin Copy Share Image
With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
My first book, Fast Forward, was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain. — Jackie French Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book about Hemingway's Paris, but a professor beat me to it. I suddenly realized other people were… — Jack Hemingway Copy Share Image
I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my most… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.' Is that a Luo expression?' I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I write to get myself writing. That and read Wallace Stevens' "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" for the umpteenth time. Certain… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
“Beginning a new book is always a test of my expectations. The turn of a single page can lift me up or… — Kim Hotzon Copy Share Image
The editor, Stephen Segal, actually called me with the idea of creating an accordion book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"], and… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there. — Greg Ginn Copy Share Image
More than a building that houses books and data, the library represents a window to a larger world, the place where we've… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
I realized that I got problems bigger than anything that can happen in prison. So I started reading books, talking to people… — Tee Grizzley Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Interestings,' I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Rohan, one of us is an unmarried man with superior mathematical abilities and no prospects for the evening. The other is a… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Everyone has a book inside them - but it doesn't do an good until you pry it out.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
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