It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life,… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“She sighed and looked at him sympathetically. 'Cool flame tricks aside, there's no competition.' He lifted his eyebrow. 'Library wins?' 'Every single… — Elizabeth Hunter Copy Share Image
Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book about the stories, ones that you sit around and tell your friends. — Sean Payton Copy Share Image
..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I know the Pollock novel. Read it last year and liked it. Daniel Woodrell is awesome. I especially like the book Winter's… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
It became a question of taste. I have a certain taste in art history. And that - I had a huge library… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“This is terrific. What a gorgeous kitchen. You’ve decorated it so beautifully. Now you’re going to have to clear all the counters.… — Dominique Browning Copy Share Image
Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea… — John Welch Copy Share Image
A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Walk with me now into this very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is… — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
