I had a book that was given to me as a kid that was called 'Faeries.' It was this dark, sinister book… — Anna Silk Copy Share Image
Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
One of the things we learned from that panel is the way poor communities use a library is very different from wealthy… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
“My book is awful,” I said. “Nonsense,” Dora J. Arod said. “Your book is nonsense.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“A novel in which the reader will ask many questions concerning Mayan antiquity.” — P.J. Wetzelaer Copy Share Image
ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“The words in his book wormed off the pages. Everything glittered like blank paper.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Steven Pressfield writes in his bestselling book The War of Art, “Self-doubt can be an ally. This is because it serves as… — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
“People don't say what they mean very often. You have to read between the lines of their behavior, of what they say,… — M.C. Frank Copy Share Image
“You can’t help wondering if this is the year that you’d be getting a good story again. It was the same thing… — Marla Miniano Copy Share Image
“A sunny nature? A light heart? I have never been so insulted. Light-hearted is a short step from witless in my book.… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
Around A.D. 930, the sages in Tiberias assembled all 24 holy books and completed the writing of the codex, the first definitive… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
'A People's History of the United States' was actually a very big book for me. I read it in high school, and… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
“That's why I read so much. A book isn't going to hurt me. A book isn't going to form some opinion about… — Paulette Mahurin Copy Share Image
My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package,… — Ellen Raskin Copy Share Image
My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
In novelas, sometimes you get the most ridiculous situations, but you make the best of it. But novelas are a very special… — Genesis Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.' I must have read it in high school.… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
All authors secretly hope that their works will be read in 100 years' time and 200 years, and that they will somehow… — Sjon Copy Share Image
Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of… — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
“when ever you read a good book somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light” — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The web has changed the way we organise information in a very clear way: from the boundaried, solid format of books and… — Katharine Viner Copy Share Image
The fact must never be forgotten that no magazine publisher in the United States could give what it is giving to the… — Edward Bok Copy Share Image
I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard… — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
“Why wait for the movie tomorrow, when you can read the book today!” — Carmela Dutra Copy Share Image
She didn't want the typical Hollywood lifestyle of juggling a career and leaving the kids at home with nannies, so she'd take… — Sean Hepburn Ferrer Copy Share Image
Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs,… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
If I were just to read briefing books or I were just to engage in the political back and forth, would I… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I've long believed that the work-out life has lessons for the writing life. I've 'solved' a lot of books while at the… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
I reckon I can count on 30 more writing years, averaging a book a year (I can't keep up the 2-2.5 a… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“This book is also not about denial. None of the methods you’ll read about here involve denying whatever health condition you may… — Joe Dispenza Copy Share Image