“Yet one had ancestors in literature as well as in one's own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One should learn from a book. Books have a lot to teach us. They have a lot of empathy to impart to… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“How well worn they all were..."Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
“Great mystery novel for the beach. Just when you think you know where the plot is going, it goes somewhere else. Big… — Harry A. Milman Copy Share Image
Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Actually,the nightmarish thought occurred to me that with electronic delivery of books becoming a norm, soon writers may be expected to provide… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
I think Laurie's Keller story 'We are growing', resonates because when you have that amount of independence, you're starting to ask yourself… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
“In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Heaven is boring. Didn't you see, in that picture book back when we used to go to school? It's just plain and… — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones. — Guillaume Musso Copy Share Image
You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have… — Les Claypool Copy Share Image
Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing. — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading. — Alice James Copy Share Image
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“Comedy doesn't makes your IQ higher.... ... Read Science... and don't re-read books for higher IQ!” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
An avid reader, I never missed a book by Judy Blume or Agatha Christie. They both remain two of my favorite authors.… — Kambri Crews Copy Share Image
“The author, then in the final stage as a candidate for Delta Force, was asked by the unit's foreboding colonel what he… — Eric Haney Copy Share Image
It may be old hat, but I see no reason to close off what is for me a fruitful subject of inquiry,… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Kids love to be silly, they love to laugh, so I think it was natural for my kids to like the sort… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“I wanted her to stretch her mind and her self-confidence, but I also wanted her to play with friends, read books, listen… — Quinn Cummings Copy Share Image
I'm lost in a loneliness that feels like forever ... like a solitude that never goes away. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
“this sentence I'm reading is terrific" i can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood. He didn't get it, though. He… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions. — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
A high-ranking Syrian official in DC laughed when he heard I was reading Michel Aflaq and writing this book. He said, "Let… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another. Because I think… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
“Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.” — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“-And there's this twelve thousand dollars item for books. -That supposed to be twelve hundred, the twelve thousand is for paper. towels.… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
I was a weird kid because I liked to be alone, but I craved attention. It was important for me to be… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
