But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them;… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
“I went on happily reading well into the night, when no one ventured on to the decks of the Donizetti, except for… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
“They would carry their books to the woods and read aloud to one another. At picnic lunches near Cooper’s Bluff, they recited… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the children’s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories I’ve been hearing… — Paul O. Zelinsky Copy Share Image
People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Ignoring for a moment the power of the American Medical Association, we still wouldn't see a huge amount of books on neurosurgery… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I read more than I had in years-novels, short stories, three long nonfiction books about how we had stumbled into the Iraq… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“What’s the point of having countless books and libraries, whose titles could hardly be read through in a lifetime. The learner is… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Oranges and unicorns say the bells of St. . . .” She looked to Harriet for inspiration. “Clunicorns?” “Somehow I don’t think… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I found Esau’s field guide at the bottom of my pack. Taking a candle into the bedroom, I read his book until… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
When I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“ The Puffer Fish: Wherein the author flaunts his vocabulary. His father was IRA and his mother was Quebecois, and they had… — Howard Mittelmark Copy Share Image
“I brought you a snack," Takumi said, dropping an oatmeal cream pie onto my book. "Very nutritious," I smiled. "You've got your… — John Green Copy Share Image
The thing with Superman is that he's completely emotionally open to the reader. Meaning what he tells you is what he's feeling;… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
My "mission", if you can call it that, is to connect with my readers on an emotional level and have them come… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
You are my other half, without you, I'm the dance without the song. I'm the heart without the soul. Without you, I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is very chivalrous of you not to want to take my virginity, and I do understand and think it's honorable, but… — Lynsay Sands Copy Share Image
Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read.… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Though controversial, there are examples even in the ancient manuscripts, the Bible, perhaps overlooked by the casual reader, which show that things… — Kim Clement Copy Share Image
The woman dashed up the staircase toward the library's main doors. Arriving at the top of the stairs, she grabbed the handle… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I found a scrap book that my mom had given to me, and inside was a letter that I wrote to myself… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If having a story that's compelling - you want to know what will happen - is traditional, then ultimately I am a… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Before 'Wings' came out, I told a few people that at the end of book one, readers should think Laurel made the… — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
“In rooms scented by dust, leather, and stone, she turns in the last of her father's dreams for her - that she… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Closing these two books, a reader senses that Joan Crawford, idol of an age, would have made an exemplary prison matron, possibly… — Harriet Van Horne Copy Share Image
As a kid, I'd buy novels with these magnificent Chris Fosse covers which showed an enormous contraption hovering over a planet, and… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
For proponents of ecosystem-based management,the good news is that another new book, Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans, conveys the topic at its… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
I'm a wide-open book. I talk to guys coming out in the draft every year. I'm a wide-open book. I'll give you… — Carson Palmer Copy Share Image
Along the (writing) way accidents happen, detours get taken... But these are not "divine" accidents; I don't believe in those. I believe… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“I could imagine his sorrow. My father had a sensual relationship with his books. He loved feeling them, stroking them, sniffing them.… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
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