“Salman Rushdie said, "A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your… — Veronica Bale Copy Share Image
It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and… — Girolamo Savonarola Copy Share Image
I might think that equality has been achieved, there is no power relation going on in terms of class, race, or gender,… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying… — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
With 'Luke Cage,' we all, as a collective wanted to tell the truest story that we could but, at the same time,… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
Before you can become a writer, you have to be a reader, and a reader of everything, at that. To the best… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There was an author who titled his books by days of the weeks and another one that used colors. Then there was… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.” — Manoj Arora Copy Share Image
I'm often a little perplexed, when I read a review of a book, by the quotes that are pulled out as evidence… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if they take my advice they never will, for… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Jesus is the perfect name! He who put away his fame! And persecuted in shame! That you will never be the same!… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books — Julian Clary Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Writing blog posts is totally freeing in a whole new way for me. I'm not writing it for any editor, and I'm… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed. — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
The new book by Nafeez Ahmed, based on very extensive and deep research, is by far the best on the 9/11 syndrome.… — Johan Galtung Copy Share Image
“I've never met an author I can't love to hate or a book I haven't paid full price for.” — Keith M. Weller Copy Share Image
In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me! — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
Books get older as well; their body also wears out, but unlike us, their brain remains forever young! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
In fact, you don’t have a soul, you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
It's fun to see someone grow as a writer, moving from their first workshopped poems to publishing their earliest poems to having… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“[…]when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
![“[…]when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create. It's in reading that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million…” quote by Mohsin Hamid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a3d/mohsin-hamid-798_book_when-you-read-a-book-what-you-see-are-bl_397757.jpg)