I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
After two years of sending out query letters and failing to get an agent, I made friends with an author, who was… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or,… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I'm not a mind reader, your unspoken words doesn't tell me anything at all. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Shane Salerno and I adapted my book Savages together, and I learned a lot about adaptation. I think it's an extremely difficult… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
The measure of a great writer is not how many weeks his books spend on the best-seller lists, but how many years… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Usually when I put together a book like this Death-Ray hardcover or that Ghost World special edition, then I have to reread… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
That's what people expect: They don't want to read a slight novel. People don't want to waste their time on anything less… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“Y después de coger a mi general le gustaba salir al patio a fumarse su cigarro y a pensar en la tristeza… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
One of the things that I love about writing novels is that it really doesn't matter what next step you take as… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
I began writing books after speaking for several years and I realize that when you have a written book people think that… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“cite the following books: The Supreme Court Explained by Ellen Greenberg, Norton Publishing, 1997; The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Supreme Court… — Max Allan Collins Copy Share Image
You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book like a rapper would write it - I didn't want to hold back. Rappers catch a… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Last night I read two books back to back. Tonight I’ll probably read both of those books’ front covers.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Option A is not available. So let’s just kick the shit out of Option B.” Life is never perfect. We all live… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s” with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“The paradox of reading is that the path toward ourselves passes through books, but that this must remain a passage. It is… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
Mack Bolan is a classic American hero. Readers like him and I feel very good about that. — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
“This was a letter to be run through eagerly, to be read deliberately, to supply matter for much reflection, and to leave… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A book is a map. There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“But, he realised, even in his panic he had not wanted to smudge the creamy paper by shutting the book while the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
