I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
“That's right I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground,… — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called 'The Book of Mormon,' we… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“But how could she have forgotten who he was—a man who could lose himself in a single book, not to mention a… — Robert Masello Copy Share Image
I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
A is for Alibi, my first book, was published in 1982. As it happened the next couple of books took place in… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I've probably read maybe by now fifteen, twenty books on Matthew. I'd say the authors I like best are an English fellow… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
. . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When someone tell me they illegally downloaded one of my audiobooks I think, Thanks a lot, Pal. When someone tells me they… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
I love books that create worlds for me that I don't want to leave. I recently lost my entire life to Haruki… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
We certainly have a lot of ideas, and we both love what Tony [Fucile] did with the book [Bink & Gollie]. If… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
Anyt hing that is found to stimulate hope should be seized upon and make to serve. This applies to a book, a… — Hubert Van Zeller Copy Share Image
The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
I read a lot of archaeology and early history in a general way, not thinking particularly of this book, and this provided… — Naomi Mitchison Copy Share Image
I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in… — Carice van Houten Copy Share Image
Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous. — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whatever kind of story you're telling, whether it's a genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance… — Seth Gabel Copy Share Image
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end… — John le Carre 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
I know I'm not supposed to judge a book by its cover. I don't wanna be in the blind but sometimes I… — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
You learn every time you write a book, and then you take that new knowledge and experience into the next book. Hopefully,… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I think they're really linked. I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I… — Tatiana de Rosnay Copy Share Image
More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Will!" Charlotte threw up her hands. "Why didn't you say so?" "You know, the books on demon pox are in the library,"… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp--with remembrance of Virginia,… — James Lane Allen Copy Share Image
In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit… — John Green Copy Share Image
Whether I'm being influenced by new music that I'm listening to, books I've read, my friends, or my faith, I'm learning all… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image