Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin pocket books from old ladies — Big L Copy Share Image
Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the 'Queen of Everything,' I thought it was a… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up. Once it's done, fortunately, it… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
When we're about telling the best possible story, making the best possible book - we're thinking about the reader, rather than about… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Reading books makes you smart, so if me reading makes me look like a nerd or a geek, then I am proud… — Shar-rae Copy Share Image
You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads… — John Green Copy Share Image
Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on… — Andrei Lankov Copy Share Image
Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
I source images and ideas from different parts of my experiences, and sometimes they are things that are made-up, or just appear… — Julia Stone Copy Share Image
Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics.… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
“Isabel is looking at several collections of research journals. 'She would understand the issues if she chose to open one of the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing. — Avi Arad Copy Share Image
One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book. — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
You can read me like a book. If I'm not having a good time, which is very rare, then you'll know. — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets. — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
None of us, of course, will ever read all the books we'd like, but we can still make a stab at it. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I have said before, and shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Sometimes one must choose between turning the pages and move on and closing the book for a better future — Mercy Pheona Copy Share Image
My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
