One of the most powerful shocks of the Middle Passage is the collapse of our tacit contract with the universe-the assumption that… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Give my book The Sixties Girl a read. You'll love it. You'll laugh, cry and find yoursel wanting more.” — Victoria Staat Copy Share Image
How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussions about the subject matter, and I've had a good time talking about… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna Karenina, the… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I quit law in 1988 to start writing, and it took me 17 years from that point to get a book contract.… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
We are told by media - books, television, reality shows - that heartbreak is this terrible thing and yet we should seek… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like,… — Barbara Palvin Copy Share Image
“That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
And if you're going to criticize me for not finishing the whole thing and tying it up in a bow for you,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Who are these people who think a book comes with a guarantee that they will like it?” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
It's not like most people read anymore. Well, not unless the book has a wizard school or a hot vampire. And, as… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We ask ourselves all kinds of questions, such as why does a peacock have such beautiful feathers, and we may answer that… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“Unlike a book or a film depression doesn’t have to be about something.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I think I've been mildly obsessed with my hair. I don't think I have a hugely adversarial relationship with it. One my… — Elizabeth Benedict Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Travel books are all sorts - some are autobiographies, some are about falling in love. Some are about having great meals, some… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Well, I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to ... you start… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
People may think that because I have illustrated and written all these books it must be easy for me, but it's not… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I have a huge music library and deliberately choose the piece of music to match the piece I'm writing. So, every book… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Just be a cool grandpa who's creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library. — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
