Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books. — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
A writer is always observant, of course... You can take the kernel of something - part of it - and use it… — Carol Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
“I knew I would stay in this town when I found the blue enamel pot floating in the lake. The pot led… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte has been my all-time favorite book since I was in middle school. — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire… — Betsy Byars Copy Share Image
Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Your life is like a book you decide what to write on it or erase from it; But you might not be… — Topsy Gift Copy Share Image
Audiences are very sophisticated and they know the nuts and bolts of the genre - certainly with horror more than others I… — Reece Shearsmith Copy Share Image
People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books.” — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no one still knows what it… — Stephane Grappelli Copy Share Image
One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print. — William Goldman Copy Share Image
This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was… — Haile Gebrselassie Copy Share Image
I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
