“Lord! haven't I seen you with the greatest authors in your hands, and don't I know how ready your attention is to… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
I really love to write about food, crafts, and fashion, so those details will always be a part of my books. I… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Because books are written by individuals, it has often made knowledge seem like the product of individuals, even though everybody has always… — David Weinberger Copy Share Image
When a book is read an irrevocable thing happens — a murder, followed by an imposture. The story in the mind murders… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the… — Neil Tennant Copy Share Image
'The End of Men' was an incendiary title, but the actual book was very sympathetic to men. It was very invested in… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Pledge Allegiance was a pretty generic name back in the day. In the 80's I was the promoter for all the punk… — Reed Mullin Copy Share Image
People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“slam the book against the wall with a thud, immediately pushing my hand against the front cover so at to ensure maximum… — Amy Cross Copy Share Image
I think that ‘New Moon’ was my favorite book as well mainly because I like the juxtaposition of all sudden people being…it’s… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
I want to make sense of things, to understand the world, but my work is never really instructional. I have no wisdom… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
I wanted a do over. A time machine. That magic wand. But real life didn't have any easy outs, and very few… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is something that… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The harm that comes to souls from the lack of reading holy books makes me shudder... What power spiritual reading has to… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I'm an avid plant collector, and I love to ride… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd; I just thought there were more of them out there. But… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
Novels are nothing but evolution, but there does come a point when that stops, and the story is sealed within the pages… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If you're looking for a book that will spike in sales and then go away and then spike again when it comes… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Reading ... changes you. You aren't the same person after you've read a particular book as you were before, and you will… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
When I pick up a book that's, you know, wreathed in laurels, I expect a lot, and that doesn't give the book… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
There are some books in which every poem is a facet of the same thing. So the book is like a piece… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and… — Tawni O'Dell Copy Share Image
A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
