I reckon I can count on 30 more writing years, averaging a book a year (I can't keep up the 2-2.5 a… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying.… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Joss's ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books… — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book? — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a… — Peter M. Brant Copy Share Image
There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
That is the first thing to learn — not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death… — Superman Copy Share Image
“I went to Audible.com and picked up books from my favorite authors! I selected the book I wanted, the first one of… — Caroline Porter Thomas Copy Share Image
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I'm very much against photographs being framed and treated with reverence and signed and sold as works of art. They aren't. They… — Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon Copy Share Image
“At no point during the making of this book have I inverted my penis although I did go to Blackpool which turned… — Matt Rudd Copy Share Image
The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God.… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
I want people to read good work. If I see someone reading a book by Lorrie Moore or Jennifer Egan, I'm psyched.… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
I wrote this book [ Desperate Marriages] because of my own marriage. My wife and I struggled greatly in the early years… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If you want to be happy, then it is within your grasp. The book you are holding can have a profound impact… — Willie Jolley Copy Share Image
Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I feel better in my mind because I'm doing what God made me to do. He said, 'Go write books, Steve, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The Bible is the Only Book That Can Make Us Wise unto Salvation. The Bible is not a book to be studied… — George Frederick Pentecost Copy Share Image