“If only I wouldn’t take this book so seriously. It is just a book after all, and a book is very dead… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
My senior year at College Park, University of Maryland, I took an elective class in crime fiction taught by Charles C. Mish.… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
Good thought can be imbibed by reading and studying good books and by contemplating on them. — Yajur Veda Copy Share Image
each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“A paradox: The things you don’t need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended… — Ken Bruen Copy Share Image
I heard one woman say to another in the queue at a book signing: 'I shouldn't be buying this. He's a former… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
“Agatha Christie called her books 'yarns'. A good yarn is very readable.” — Barbara Bothwell Copy Share Image
“But a good novel is first of all an event; as distinguished from the continuous rush of many sensations and the messy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are probably some readers who don't want a great American writer to acknowledge that cleaning out the bottom drawer of the… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Done to death by books? There were worse ways to go, even if you weren't a bibliophile.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Just for me - obviously, not all writers think this - but for me, I feel like seeing my book in Target… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent.… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
It used to be fashionable for authors to have their pictures taken with dogs, but the dogs always looked like models hired… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“It is better to read one intellectually challenging book every 12 months … than to read 12 entertaining books every month.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is time to return to close reading, to a serious and painstaking examination of an author's methods, of his style. Do… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
I am a huge comic book nerd and video game nerd, so to get to actually play one of those characters would… — Zachary Levi Copy Share Image
“Are you New World or Old?' 'Sounds like a novel by Henry James.' 'Never read him.' 'Don't. But that was his question… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Do you always travel with such cumbersome books?" "I don't trust anyone who wouldn't.” — Doug Dorst Copy Share Image
