Reader! To whatever visible church, synagogue, or mosque you may belong! See if you do not find more true religion among the… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
“We are not immune to the lure of wonder and mystery and awe: we have music and art and literature, and find… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I believe that authors don't have a responsibility to include "messages" in their work, but they do have a responsibility to write… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Guy Gavriel Kay's 'Tigana' is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. It's beautifully… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have a vision of the world as being a lot darker, perhaps, than I did when I was 31 and wrote… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human.... And although you don't… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
For me, not just the character of 'Ender', but the whole world is so beautifully crafted in the novel that I wasn't… — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“Write what you yourself would like to read, a story that will entertain and challenge you. If you try and follow the… — J.D. Trafford Copy Share Image
“We are metered only by our own machines, while the book is a clock that forgets her machanics.” — Amy King Copy Share Image
“Jo, they have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read,… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the… — Bible Copy Share Image
There are just certain things you can't talk about with kids. I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart… — David Small Copy Share Image
“And you’re an author?” Richard asked, knowing very well that Graham was indeed G.M. Russell. “I’m sorry, I’m not exactly sure I’ve… — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
“to graduation, I would have to remain always. I did not take hold of my studies with avidity, in fact I rarely… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.” — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
My love of books - not just of their tactile pleasures but of their astonishing variety - was born in a book-filled… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“Witches release the chapters of the past, which invites the novels of the future.” — Dacha Avelin Copy Share Image
“Fate is what it was. Yes, fate that the book I had with me was a novel written by my great-grandfather, a… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book,… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“People can’t read a book if they don’t know it exists. All authors need to do marketing, regardless of how they published.” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find… — Jeff McManus Copy Share Image
I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my… — Jennifer Carpenter Copy Share Image
“ There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book as an adult novel,… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending… — Rudolf Spielmann Copy Share Image
The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Liberals decided it's much better not to play outraged with me anymore. I sell lots of books that way. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity. — Melissa Gilbert Copy Share Image
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
