“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
For the size of it, a check book is about the greatest convenience I know of. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
It's weird - sort of not terribly wise - to take a book that was successful and then change its cover. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true. — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Wherever we are, we can improve our chances of getting ahead by keeping a book in hand — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
“Any book thoughtfully read sharpens the mind and improves on and individual's professional potential.” — James F. Amos Copy Share Image
I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life,… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm a library book. I've been used, tossed around, and put down. I'm just waiting for someone who think… — Francine Chiar Copy Share Image
I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are… — Nancy O'Dell Copy Share Image
They say never judge a book by its cover.. but how will you ever see the inside if you never give the… — Yushantha Naidoo Copy Share Image
“As someone who has to teach for a living, I shouldn't be saying this, but the planet can do quite well without… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The Thames Torso murders almost fell into my lap. After deciding to use a real historical crime as the focus for the… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
How do I start writing a book? I sit there, I come up with an opening line, and then I go little… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think the term "artist's novel" for me has referred to writing which supports an art practice or a more specifically a… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
It seems to me that literature is giving way a little bit to the immediacy of other diversions, other forms of entertainment.… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Nothing ensures the success of the child more in the society than being read to from infancy to young adulthood. Reading books… — Anita Silvey Copy Share Image
After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic… — Iris Chang Copy Share Image