“This weight of verifiable place-event-phenomenon-behavior makes the reader forget that he is reading a pure invention, a history that never took place… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I could easily go through all my books and mark the ones that were original, mark the ones that were adapted or… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“I have a few friends who still moan that paper is the only way to read a book, but I’d rather have… — Terry Schott Copy Share Image
“This is that old well known man, for who I understood that one morning he puts the pistol in his mouth and… — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the emperor… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows… — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Practical advice.—People who read much must always keep it in mind that life is one thing, literature another. Not that authors invariably… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance. To go on for five hundred pages developing an idea whose… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“This is the book, then, and the book of Shakespeare. And every day you must read a page of each to your… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“spell. Reluctant to stop reading, she closed the book, and then slipped it into her purse so she could pick it up… — C.J. Carmichael Copy Share Image
I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The first comic I can remember ever reading was a 'Fantastic Four' issue that my dad bought out of the drugstore once.… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
“I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review. I absolutely love summers books this… — Summer Cooper Copy Share Image
I'm a constant editor. Every few months or so I make a ton of 4x6 prints. I put them on a magnetic… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
I live, I live, with an absolutely continuous sense of failure. I am always defeated, always. Every book is the wreck of… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Jews, Germans, and Allies is an important historical document, especially in light of those revisionists who would impose a universal amnesia about… — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I remember 'Roots' growing up and the cultural impact it had on the country. Watching 'Roots' was not the cool remove of… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When I first moved up to San Francisco to write Where The Wild Things Are, I had a couple moments where I… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious… — Rossiter Johnson Copy Share Image
The Charge will change your life. Our brains are hard wired to meet specific human drives, and learning to harness and activate… — Daniel Amen Copy Share Image
People will ask me, "How do you approach writing books for young readers differently than for adults?" My answer is always: I… — Alan Gratz Copy Share Image
“She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
Growing up, I didn't have any comic books, at all. But my friend had a trunk full of them, so comic books… — James Spader Copy Share Image
I learned to build bookshelves and brought books to my room, gathering them around me thickly. I read by day and into… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
