“...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I do have shout-outs to bands and musicians I like in my books, but the musical references can be misunderstood. Often, I… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it,… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
I write romance, women's fiction, chicklit. I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I write books for… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“NOTICE Persons attempting to find a "text" in this book will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a "subtext" in this book… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In ten years I will be a beautiful charming lovely lady writer without any husband or children but lots of lovers and… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This sentence alone would save mankind if all books and prophets… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who… — James T. Farrell Copy Share Image
I have received emails from readers who have said that they were emotionally impacted by the books, and they feel they are… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
When Mats came in the evenings, they would drink tea in the kitchen while reading their books and talking about them. If… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
Whatever people may say about my books - and it always amazes me when people don't like them, but sometimes they don't… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of… — Henry Wotton Copy Share Image
It [World of Warcraft] is a touchstone. It has established standards, it's established how you play an MMO. Every MMO that comes… — Greg Zeschuk Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was not a scholar in the sense we regard the term to-day, yet no man ever lived or probably ever will… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
I've found a bit of success in my career, and I'm very relieved by it, but the success that comes after a… — Lauren Grodstein Copy Share Image
Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religion.… — Victoria Glendinning Copy Share Image
I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Keep that red-haired girl of yours in the open air all summer and don't let her read books until she gets more… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
“As the boat drew nearer to shore, and tiny dots in the distance became seagulls, she opened the book across her lap… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
What I had to do was learn how to tell stories with my pictures. At first I didn't even know what that… — Marla Frazee Copy Share Image
What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“I cannot imagine not reading. Some books, of course, are like lovers; you go to bed with them once and fall asleep… — Joe Bennett Copy Share Image
There's nothing definite yet. Of course, any time you have a book, there's going to be book signings and stuff. We'll do… — Scotty Moore Copy Share Image
My parents were only one part of my lineage. I also met a number of mentors, one of whom I nicknamed "Socrates"… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
If you buy my book at Walmart, I don't want you to read it. I want you to set it on fire.… — Sara Benincasa Copy Share Image
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If you're an Indian, you could be very anxious about some of the Supreme Court's decisions, some of the decisions of policy… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
![“It [World of Warcraft] is a touchstone. It has established standards, it's established how you play an MMO. Every MMO that comes out, I play and look at it. And if they break any of the WoW rules, in my book that's pretty dumb.” quote by Greg Zeschuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/932/greg-zeschuk-46808_book_it-world-of-warcraft-is-a-touchstone-it_2905214.jpg)
