“Books were seen as a waste of time. What was the point, unless you were reading for information? To lose oneself in… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real… — Christian Slater Copy Share Image
A shame really, because putting the right book in the right kid’s hands is kind of like giving that kid superpowers. — Cecil Castellucci Copy Share Image
“Start with a word. A word leads to a sentence, which leads to a paragraph, which leads to a chapter, which leads… — Mark Pettinger Copy Share Image
Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Ally wasn't disappointed in the writers: she hadn't expected anything from them in the first place; it hadn't occurred to her to… — Tessa Hadley Copy Share Image
For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in those Orwellian dystopian novels, like 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'Brave New World,' and obviously Orwell's '1984.' — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
If you tell the reader it's funny, then the audience is like an audience at a stand-up comedy club and they expect… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“People say everybody has a book inside them, so why not make your life a great story?” — Martha Louise Hunter Copy Share Image
I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Sighs grew more worried every month; he could not get the thought out of his head that Mr. Perkins would ask him… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The Greek word euangelizo means “to gospelize,” to tell people the good news about what Jesus did for us, and in the… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“In her book claiming that allegations of ritualistic abuse are mostly confabulations, La Fontaine’s (1998) comparison of social workers to ‘nazis’ shows… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their own mental limitations. I want people to… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse.… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a book, I do not know where the energy and the words come from. I just… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
A wise man, when he writes a book, sets forth his arguments fully and clearly; an enlightened ruler, when he makes his… — Han Fei Copy Share Image
“Because this absolutely insane - the craziest thing I'd ever done. Worse than giving a one-star review, scarier than asking for an… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“I know there were no guaratnees. No way of knowing what came next for me, or him, or anything. Some things dont… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Your book is awesome! It makes me want to go out and become a chef!” Henry C. Smith, San Francisco April 2014” — Dr. Vivienne Kruger Copy Share Image
“Because I am special. For the moment that was all she had to say. There would be more, much more, but the… — Debbie Viguié Copy Share Image
Art and literature need extreme sociality to a degree that even dolphins don't have. We are the only large mammalian species that… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
“Books, after all, do not have the same impact whenever we read them.” — Donald Sassoon Copy Share Image
“Brrr, who had never admired books particularly...didn't remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“School exams are memory tests, in real-world no one is going to stop you from referring a book to solve a problem.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“The greatest book ever composed was marked at one point unconventional. Also it was marked difficult to read and comprehend, especially in… — Marcus G Monroe Copy Share Image
The book[ The Thorn and The Blossom] is a love story about two people, Brendan and Evelyn, who meet in a small… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of individual work has depreciated, for our… — Emil Ruder Copy Share Image
I hear some guy teaches a course in diagrammatic thinking now; he's written books on it and stuff like that, and so… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“The death of someone is like reading a book, yet having it end, where it wasn't supposed to.” — Cindy Vo Nguyen Copy Share Image
I cannot write a novel because I cannot work in continuity. My works are more abstract, may be, I will try short… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
![“The book[ The Thorn and The Blossom] is a love story about two people, Brendan and Evelyn, who meet in a small town in Cornwall where Evelyn has gone on vacation and Brendan is working in his father's bookstore. The story is told from both perspectives, Brendan's and Evelyn's.” quote by Theodora Goss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/341/theodora-goss-10051_book_the-book-the-thorn-and-the-blossom-is-a_3173603.jpg)
