“Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with divine pleasure.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“I mean, what kind of literature do you think ants would make if they could read? Not F. Scott Fuckin’ Fitzgerald, not… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
I am grateful for the 30 years of my work and the way it has influenced humanity, especially all the books that… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“It’s good.’ She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It’s good or it’s bad.… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Douglas Adams called The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. While reading the book, he came across a passage which revealed to the… — Andrew Knight Copy Share Image
“...There is no such thing as a story. The words on paper are only instructions used by each reader to create a… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
Romance doesn't have to be difficult -- that's just an idea you've picked up from books and movies! For right now, let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you… — Abbie Cornish Copy Share Image
Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“You've seen Star Wars?' 'Seen it and denounced it.' 'You've denounced Star Wars?' She looked me straight in the eye and said,… — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“Dark books say to us, “This isn’t about you. You are in fact alive and safe.” Yes, there’s an implicit and unavoidable… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“At this point I feel I would be remiss to not mention the prevalence of a specific kind of person who enters… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to live a… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Life is an unwritten book, full of empty pages, waiting to be filled with our story. Each moment is a poignant chapter.… — Randi Cooley Wilson Copy Share Image
I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“God knew you’d pick up this book. God knows you. He knows what you think about, what drives you nuts, when you… — Mike Howerton Copy Share Image
Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
“This is like beginning to read a book. When we start, we will often be interrupted by many distractions around us. But… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“READER, You have here an honest book; it does at the outset forewarn You that, in contriving the same, I have proposed… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I like what I read, I find it intellectually engaging and I don't really have that much time, so I gotta make… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
At last an authentic voice from Saudi Arabia. Al-Mohaimeed has written a remarkable, rhythmic, genuine novel. Wolves of the Crescent Moon throbs… — Hanan al-Shaykh Copy Share Image
How lucky am I? Quite often I speak at book festivals, and people ask me how I got published. There's people who… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“helping me. It’s a full-time job, and I am grateful for your concern for my reader friends. Of course, thanks to my… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
I haven't the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven't the faintest idea how many copies of books sold, or how… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The rules for reading yourself to sleep are easier to follow than are the rules for staying awake while reading. Get into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
They were made up names in Dune that I didn't know how to pronounce, but I knew how I should sound because… — Virginia Madsen Copy Share Image
