Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something… My theory is a children's book... can be just for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wandering the book fair at AWP is a great way to get acquainted with a wide sampling of the diverse journals that… — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
“Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It's just a matter of believing it… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It’s mostly pink. If you’re reading this… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Sometimes I miss my family badly. In those weak moments, books come to my rescue because they help me think differently. — P. R. Sreejesh Copy Share Image
“If I were a cop, and I caught a criminal, I’d throw the book at them. A heavy book, like an unabridged… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245) — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“My ideal relationship with a book is that I will read it for the first time entirely unspoiled. I won’t know anything… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
We are probably the only artists in the world who have a 2,000-page book on a work of art that doesn't exist.… — Christo Copy Share Image
We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave… — Robert Purvis Copy Share Image
A masterly analysis of how political interests, economic circumstances, development strategies, and local history have shaped what are surprisingly different versions of… — Nancy Birdsall Copy Share Image
Stephen King told me a long time ago, when he gave me some advice about the movies. He said to take the… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I've been doing short-form writing for a decade, and six years ago I signed with an agent, and we've been working on… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
At 31, I decided to learn how to read and, at 32, read my first book: Lee Iacocca's autobiography. Ten years later,… — Diamond Dallas Page Copy Share Image
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters. — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.” — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Sophie's World' in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all. — Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis Copy Share Image
Sending a book out into the world is a lot like sending your child to the first day of kindergarten. You hope… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many… — Michael W. Smith Copy Share Image
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
If I'm riding my bike I just replay the same scenarios over and over in my head, like I haven't had a… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
It’s time to close the books on infectious diseases, declare the war against pestilence won, and shift national resources to such chronic… — William H. Stewart Copy Share Image
I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
This is the inevitable consequence of a popular movie: you become the guy who wrote "the book that inspired the movie." Frankly… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
I lived in upstate New York until I was ten years old and we moved overseas. I have a lot of nostalgic… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
