For the readers out there, if your girlfriend says she's having a girls' weekend, do not show up with a bottle of… — Jessica St. Clair Copy Share Image
POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The liveliest effusions of wit and humour are simply what the reader of a novel has a right to expect. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“This is one of the chief differences between a child's experience of a favorite book and an educated adult's. For the adult,… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
Literature can no longer be either Mimesis or Mathesis but merely Semiosis, the adventure of what is impossible to language, in a… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“But sympathy in novels need not be simply a matter of the reader’s direct identification with a fictional character. It can also… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book. — John Waters Copy Share Image
I'm very, very leery of nonfiction books where they change timeframes and use - what do they call those things? - composite… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“And just look at these books!” said Hermione excitedly, running a finger along the spines of the large leather-bound tomes. “A Compendium… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I don't read reviews or take any feedback from anyone. Here's the thing: The stories don't even care what I think about… — J.R. Ward 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
Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross;… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“You wrote a fucking book. Do you know how many people wish they could do that, or how many people talk about… — Rachel Lynn Solomon Copy Share Image
Not every story lends itself tonally to humor, so you have to navigate that territory properly. You can put a humorous spin… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
“To my son Dylan. I’ve written this book for you. It’s a guide for how not to live your life. I’m sending… — Carolee Dean Copy Share Image
“Writers shouldn't fear criticism. Instead, they should fear silence. Criticism is healthy. It gets people thinking about your work and, even better,… — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
We are free, in the West, to choose; we have real choice to pursue our own desires; we are free to set… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
“You can find all the new ideas in the old books; only there you will find them balanced, kept in their place,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“This book is cheerfully dedicated to those greatest and most heroic of all human endeavors, WAR and WARFARE; may they never cease… — James Jones Copy Share Image
I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
“If a tale we're reading or watching on screen is too familiar, it becomes boring; we know the end from the beginning… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I'd never been interested in the Kennedy assassination until '88, when I read Libra. And from that point, I went out and… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
The book is all in us. Fool, hearest not thou? In thine own heart day and night is singing that Eternal Music… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Do not expect that you will have no sorrows because you are a king. “It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Learn how to cook. Read books that will educate you. Get an education. Get a career. And support yourself. And live in… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
A good book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Every aspect of the novel is - or should be - an arrow pointed towards its ultimate meaning, or a multiplicity of… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
