To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Having written Camp David as a drama, I could see the drama maybe a little more clearly when I wrote the book. — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
“reading a book is taking a journey" -Kate Source google images reading quotes” — Kate Copy Share Image
Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I think I'm much more comfortable talking about other books than my own! — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me),… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hate picking favourite books. I usually tend to stay away from all the 'top record' and 'favourite song' and 'favourite book',… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
"Books ... books, ..." he exclaims. It is those that teach us to refine on our pleasures when young, and which, having… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Every single line on the Oscar show is negotiated. Unless you've been there, you have no idea how it is put together.… — Bruce Vilanch Copy Share Image
Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'.… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew,… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
I went to work at the library. I know that sounds crazy but I didn't know where else to go. Besides, at… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is such a strangely and radically private act, and yet its purpose is this great sense of connection and community. I… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not. — Horace Copy Share Image
Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written]. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos. — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see.” — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Never judge a book by the cover ,you never know you might be talking to a angel... — Frenchqueen Copy Share Image
I like listening to books as well, as that way you can iron at the same time. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“If you spare some space for a new book, also spare some time to read it.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone! — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia". — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it… — Vicky Hartzler Copy Share Image