“In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
We got Arbitron diaries at my house in the 1980s, when the family was down to just my mother and me, and… — Hank Stuever Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Each and every reader comprehends the Qur’an/ Bible on a different level in tandem with the depth of his understanding. There are… — Taken from The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts. — Larry L. King Copy Share Image
“O blessed idleness! Divine lazy nymph! Reach me a novel as I lie in my dressing-gown at three o'clock in the afternoon;… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon's, they were trying to get us to change it from the… — Kenny Loggins Copy Share Image
“The characters and plot in this book are pure fiction. Any similarity to real persons living or dead, elected, convicted, or merely… — Thomas Gately Briody Copy Share Image
“There were about thirty of them, I think - all women; all seated at tables, bearing drinks and books and papers. You… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they… — Wayne Thomas Batson Copy Share Image
If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth. — Steve Bisley Copy Share Image
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still… — Emily Watson Copy Share Image
“I settled opposite him in my favorite chair, low enough that my feet can touch the floor, wide enough to curl up… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“Books rose to the ceiling, which rose to a point, with ladders that leaned against the walls.” — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
My personal view is that reading has to be balanced. Obviously, there's a certain amount of reading that we have to do… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“One thing I had learnt, the last person you should ask for a solution is the author. If he knew where he… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
“In any case, if the reader would have a correct idea of the mood of these exiles, we must conjure up once… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers. — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
