“He pinched the remaining chapters’ pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book.” — David S.E. Zapanta Copy Share Image
Real writers-that is, capital W Writers-rarely make much money. Their biggest reward is the occasional reader's response.... Commentators-in-print voicing big fat opinions-you… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
“This is what we do with books: we put our longings and our questions and our angst onto trading ships and send… — Julian Darius Copy Share Image
To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the best problem… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
“There are books for when you’re bored. Plenty of them. There are books for when you’re calm. The best kind, in my… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
My first three-sisters novel in a while, 'Sandcastles' tells the story of the Sullivan family - two passionate artists and their three… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
My books are not 'political.' I don't make political demands. They actually describe life. But when we look at human life, politics… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
The world's information is digital. The web, the news, all of that is digital. And now... we have ten million books scanned.… — Mary Lou Jepsen Copy Share Image
“Actually, the books were never a planned career path. Jamie Lee Curtis” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[U]se extreme caution, and please remember that 451 degrees Fahrenheit is more than just a book a title....” — Ammon Shea Copy Share Image
I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“My turn now. The story of one of my insanities. For a long time I boasted that I was master of all… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Author describes that a failed sea captain, "vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.” — Joseph Wheelan Copy Share Image
“It was as if she was a wannabe Persian cat who had just tasted sour milk.” — Adele Rose Copy Share Image
“Anna Arkadyevna read and understood, but it was unpleasant for her to read, that is, to follow the reflection of other people’s… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
