I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating. — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
“Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I read comic books when I was a kid. Now I have a passion for art and galleries that I think came… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
“Those were my last words. To be listed in some book of quotations, alphabetically after Wilde: Wilde, Oscar (of the wallpaper in… — Roberta Pearce Copy Share Image
Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later,… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“Erich Fromm in his 1941 book "Escape from Freedom", about the nature of one of our culture’s most cherished values. Fromm argues… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
“I will quote one sentence from this text, namely, the one with which it ended. It was also the sentence which finally… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
There is a lot of learned material written about nationalism - scholarly books and papers, histories of it, theories of it -… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and irritatingly as you can. And the good things will… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But the essence of a place, the part of it that picks you up and puts you down somewhere else, cannot be… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair. — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“If you would write a book about that and give the answer to that question, that 'why?' - you would have a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You are one of us, one of those who knows without knowing, and one who will live and die in dreams that… — Mary-Jean Harris Copy Share Image
“The principal aim underlying this work is to render homage where homage is due, a task which I know beforehand is impossible… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“My mouth was dry as cotton and my head hurt like hell. I tried to lift it, and the effort left me… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Books like Munro's are so deeply personal and idiosyncratic that it feels like a violation to subject them to the crude business… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
My two goals are to read everything Edith Wharton has ever written and to have an art collection. — Kellie Martin Copy Share Image
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way around. — John K Van De Kamp Copy Share Image
