Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem. — Dan Wakefield Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I always feel very afraid as I work on books. It's just so hard to write a decent book! — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty. — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
“People who read books," he went on, "tend to be dispensable. Extremely.” — Ninni Holmqvist Copy Share Image
I tell people that life is like a book. Sometimes you've just got to turn the chapter. Even if you don't understand… — Danny Gokey Copy Share Image
They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds. I put… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me. — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
There are things I'll never talk about for sure. My life is an open book, but there's always a few secret pages… — Jessica Mulroney Copy Share Image
Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He began to explicate a detailed and heretofore unformulated hypothesis about the human mind’s psychological readiness to read a given book at… — Phillip Lewis Copy Share Image
Tony Vigorito has grown a cult following of thousands for one reason—his stuff is fun to read... It’s… filled with the freshness… — Kris Saknussemm Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of respect for Mark Gordon’s work and am confident that together we can bring the beauty and… — Douglas Gresham Copy Share Image
I had simply been inspired by Arthur Godfrey (40's) and Ukulele Ike and Cliff Edwards (20's). In there day, they were huge… — Tiny Tim Copy Share Image
I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I beg your pardon?” Catherine interrupted. “Are you implying that women have poor judgment?” “In these matters, yes.” Leo gestured to Christopher.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
You can have your beliefs, but if you're not devout, you can't quite believe that something which grows out of a story,… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
