Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“You have some lovely books," she said. "I like the one with the pictures of polar bears." "The books with words too… — Barbara Elsborg Copy Share Image
Sure, kids want to read whatever is the hot book, and of course they want to read fantasy and any kind of… — Sofia Quintero Copy Share Image
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you… — Alexandra Robbins Copy Share Image
You have to find your own style, and it's difficult to define what style is. It's not what you're wearing; it's how… — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“I have no feeling of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison .... Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“A piece of writing is a trap,” he said cheerily, “and the best kind. A book, you see, is the only kind… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that people often seem to believe that authors of realistic fiction are directly translating their personal experiences into… — Malinda Lo Copy Share Image
Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
“I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that… — Leah Price Copy Share Image
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things. — James Salter Copy Share Image
That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Generally my favorite remarks always come from my readers. I've had people say my books made them laugh, or cry, or that… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
