“I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book.” — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
“Kant also identified idle desires with wishing and active desire with willing, and he seemed to think that one of the problems… — Manfred Kuehn Copy Share Image
I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
“Happiness, said De Quincey, on his discovery of the paradise that he thought he had found in opium, could be sent down… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
“The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
“I have only met men like you in novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.” — Sachin Kundalkar Copy Share Image
“If the right book can save your soul, then perhaps the wrong ones can damn it.” — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Women who were housewives, who were pretty miserable ... felt inspired by her book and their life changed. They didn't become megastars,… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“What do they know anyway? You’ll read it in a book What do they know anyway? You’ll read it in a book… — Belle & Sebastian Copy Share Image
I hear stories of kids trying to swipe left or right on books - we have to rein that back a bit… — Sam Palladio Copy Share Image
Sighing, she shut the book with a snap. “All right. You need to vent, so I’ll listen to you vent. But do… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when I read, it's not just fiction while I'm between the pages. It’s real. My heart races when they kiss, and… — Emma Hart Copy Share Image
“I love him in a way I cannot define, as if my love were an organ within my body that I could… — Laura Nowlin Copy Share Image
“The therapeutic effect of reading was not a new concept to the librarians running the VBC (Victory Book Campaign). In the editorial… — Molly Guptill Manning Copy Share Image
“If what I reading has the power to grip me, I can read under the most difficult circumstances.” — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
I love all the 'Harry Potter' books. Those are just my favorites. — Kirstin Maldonado Copy Share Image
I think when you get interested in antiques, the most frustrating thing is that books don't have enough photos. When you go… — Judith Miller Copy Share Image
My very earliest memories are of watching my father study - he had his stack of law books on the kitchen table… — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more. — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
Year after year, author/historian William Loren Katz continues to mine the lodestone of Black culture, and it is simply amazing how often… — Herb Boyd Copy Share Image
I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The built-in form is a window frame. You can use this genre [crime fiction] to go where you want to go, and… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I know that when I was a children's librarian, that was about 1940, boys particularly asked where were the books about kids… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
'Underworld' was my first filmed book. I think there are about seven of my lines in it. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The longer you continue the journey, the more exciting it becomes, because of the chance you have to learn about who you… — Art Berg Copy Share Image
We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The overriding aim of this book is to seek viable responses to the biggest dilemma of our times: reconciling our aspirations for… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of… — Khalil Copy Share Image
So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image