“I left the house at around midnight and crept up the driveway to the road. I wore canvas sneakers, athletic socks, safari… — Donald Antrim Copy Share Image
What I've learnt is to be in the now. It's something my mum has always said to me, and when I read… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter how many copies of my book I sell. The important thing is that the person reading it likes it.” — Jennifer Raygoza Copy Share Image
No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“In your modesty you seem to consider that writers are of different blood and bone from yourselves; that they know more of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The size of a man's income has considerable effect on his access to the world beyond his neighborhood. With money he can… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Language is a theme in the whole book, no? I mean it ends with the title poem about words are all we… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
In 2011, 'Yourself in the World,' a book of my writings and interviews, was published in conjunction with a retrospective of my… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“He was a loner with an intimate bond to humanity, a rebel who was suffused with reverence. And thus it was that… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“You only benefit from books if you can give something back to them. What I mean is, if you approach them in… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“do not look for me in other people. i do not exist elsewhere and when you meet another, do not… — Gretchen Gomez Copy Share Image
I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
When I was writing the first few books, what I would do is write a bunch of sentences and then go back… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I read a lot, but in comparison to my family, it's nothing. I keep telling them, 'I'm the illiterate of the family.'… — Aditi Rao Hydari Copy Share Image
“Even sheets felt different at the cottage. On certain days...the sheets were aired out in the sun. I slipped in between two… — Amy Willard Cross Copy Share Image
My laptop broke and because of the storm I could not get a new one. And so I've been promoting my book… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“How can any one become a thinker if he does not spend at least a third part of the day without passions,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline. As she leafs… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.” — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
There is much that makes one pause in 'If This is a Man', the record of Levi's 11-month incarceration in Auschwitz, much… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
As long as thriller authors teach us about our world, they'll be relevant. — David Morrell Copy Share Image
In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize… — Mark Hamill Copy Share Image
I am pretty antisocial and have difficulty communicating with other human beings. I know that if I were in Philly I'd still… — Ben Daniels Copy Share Image
Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“She wanted to own a book so badly and she had thought the copying would do it. But the pencilled sheets did… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
People like that I wrote a book - that's cute, but oh, making a business out of it? That's not nice. — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“You shall read them, if you behave well,' said the old gentleman kindly; 'and you will like that, better than looking at… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Your skin isnt paper. Dont cut it. Your life isnt a book. Dont judge it. Your love isnt trash, so dont crumple… — Keys Copy Share Image
Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
A vivid portrait of a teenage girl and her family in disarray. Meredith is a wonderful narrator, witty, feisty, full of yearning,… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
