I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I write to entertain. When people read one of my books I want them to finish with a smile on their faces,… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we… — Aime Cesaire Copy Share Image
The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“Francis Bacon once remarked that “some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored.” — J.F Hermann Copy Share Image
I would stay at my grandma's house on my birthday every year and I remember she had a bookshelf of murder mystery… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
“Either way, you wrote the book and now you’re complaining about the reviews I’m giving it,” I quipped. “Fair enough.” He held… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book… All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons.… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Whenever I start a new book, I think, 'This is the most interesting subject of all time. It's sad, I'll never enjoy… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Life's harder, the deeper you feel things, was all I could think as I put the books away. Feelings, who needs them?… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
Thousands of E.U. law instruments have come onto the U.K. statute book - all without the democratic legitimacy our constitutional traditions expect. — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
There are no grown-ups. We suspect this when we are younger, but can confirm it only once we are the ones writing… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
They said I would never write this book. Well, f**k ’em – ’cos here it is. All I have to do now… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the… — David Pogue Copy Share Image
I have read countless comics books while listening to hip hop, and as a young one, I wasted countless hours practicing nunchuks… — Axel Alonso Copy Share Image
“A reader has recently described the Heresy novels as "Dan Brown meets Guy Ritchie" and "I am constantly telling people about the… — Alexander Ferrar Copy Share Image
The book deals with being an honorable person in a dishonest world. The Fencing Master does not sell himself. Thats his tragedy,… — Arturo Perez Reverte Copy Share Image
I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“A book is a vacation for the mind. My books will take you inside my mind, so feel free to make yourself… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it… — Janna Malamud Smith Copy Share Image
There must be every kind of books in your library. The most beautiful gardens are those with many different flowers, with all… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I feel character description from a book can mislead you and actually make you fall off course when you're representing a character… — Will Poulter Copy Share Image
Exhaustively researched and beautifully written, Cronkite is a classic. Douglas Brinkley has written his best book yet. This is a fascinating story… — Debby Applegate Copy Share Image
I read every book about Buster Keaton and Chaplin to see how they worked - it's all about dedication, tunnel vision, pursuit… — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the… — Xinran Copy Share Image
Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
