“Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does:otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Books feel more intimate. And the people who go out of their way to read your writings, are initially more open to… — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
As winter approaches - bringing cold weather and family drama - we crave page-turners, books made for long nights and tryptophan-induced sloth. — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful… — Carol Windley Copy Share Image
What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“A book--the book that was, for some reason, THE book--can be reread, unchanged. Only we have changed. And that makes all the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I have lost my mate, my mind, my existence.." Blood Wrath book 3 of The draven Witch Series” — Zoey Sweete Copy Share Image
In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Aspiring authors, get this through your head. Cover art serves one purpose, and one purpose only, to get potential customers interested long… — Larry Correia Copy Share Image
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
For me, the most painful thing is the thought of shelves without books. This is the problem with the digital thing. I… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
All right, the pendulum isn’t working. Sometimes you need an accelerant to help it.” – Death “Like gasoline?” – Nick “Yes, Nick.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Without a doubt, I must read, all the books I've read about. See the artworks hung on hooks, that I have only,… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
"And they lived happily ever after" is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It's tragic because it's falsehood. It is… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
You don't market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It's a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
...maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“The choices you have for your children are not the same as mine. For me, there is no such thing as a… — Sara Ellie MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I wish my book of life is written by pencil becoz I wanaa erase some pages.... — Mulfat Copy Share Image
Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches. — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“found. However, in my research for this book, I come across the same incident with the same guys only the location is… — Gerald Naekel Copy Share Image
History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of… — Tansy Rayner Roberts Copy Share Image
It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?" — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
From arts, to literature, to science, to the founding of Christian institutions, all of that has its roots in a biblical worldview,… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing. — Michael Berryman Copy Share Image
“Readers are already streaming “highlights” of what they’re reading onto services like Goodreads, Findings, or Amazon’s Kindle.” — The Penguin Press Copy Share Image
“Whenever I got any money, I invested it in books. When my savings dwindled, I got rid of everything else—pictures, furniture, china.… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a… — Marilyn Ross Copy Share Image
I painted myself into a corner by writing a whole book on this one period. The summer of 1927 came to an… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
