“Not having any books makes me feel empty and strained and pathetic.” — Laura Amy Schlitz Copy Share Image
It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
“As I walked inside, she turned around and headed for the end of the bed. Then she paused and turned to face… — Kieran Scott Copy Share Image
“Which is why books are such a lifeline. Stepping into the pages of someone else’s story means joining them in their normal… — Joanna Davidson Politano Copy Share Image
A book is a silent teacher, and a precious and indispensable companion in life. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Books—the closeness of them, their contact, their smell, and their contents—constitute the safest refuge against this world of horror. They are the… — Tahir Djaout The Last summer of Reason Copy Share Image
It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Success is walking out of here with the title, and anything less is not good enough in my book. — Pete Sampras Copy Share Image
In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Frazzled and delirious, as I've just finished a new book of stories. I feel like Moses staggering down the mountainside with the… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
I read the books, get some, Listen to others, get little but what i get the most is to sit and think. — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
There's nothing I like more than a writer who can sing, or a musician who has a book out. — John Wesley Harding Copy Share Image
