Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books... — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book. — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
“I've read about a chapter a night in the Book of Magic. I'm almost finished with it.” — Candace Knoebel Copy Share Image
Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing. — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to the end of another book alive. At times like this I’m always at a loss for words.” — Joe Coomer Copy Share Image
How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what its like to really adore something. — Todd Lowe Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles and male bonding, but when the… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Unless you're Stephen King or Joyce Carol Oates, no one's going to recognize you on the street, and you're promoting your book,… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Anselm Kiefer made a book for me. He was taking pictures of me and my friends when we weren't posing, just all… — Michele Lamy Copy Share Image
They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
The books you read as a young person are books that stay with you forever. I think that is the biggest privilege… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
It's interesting to me that really one of the first things she [Eleanor Roosevelt]did as First Lady was to collect her father's… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Maberry is a master at writing scenes that surge and hum with tension. The pacing is relentless. He presses the accelerator to… — S.G. Browne Copy Share Image
At a book festival in Fort Lauderdale, I met David Eisenhower, Ike's grandson, who was promoting his book 'Going Home to Glory:… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
“It may be that I might have inferred from the pages that life teaches us to diminish the value of what we… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
The trick in writing children's books is to set up danger, mystery and excitement on page one. Force the kid to turn… — Jerry West Copy Share Image