Books don't only furnish a room: they also make the best holiday gifts. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“There would be a center table, with books of a tranquil sort on it. . .” — Mark Twain Following the Equator Copy Share Image
The composite chapters of life's book are written on delicate layers of feelings and memories. Once torn, these pages remain blemished. — Alberta Peedoodle Copy Share Image
We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to… — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose… — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I've worked out a Ninja Replacement Score for novels. It's basically the number of characters that need to be replaced by ninjas… — Janni Lee Simner Copy Share Image
For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
My way of deciding whether a film is worth doing is if you can get through it all in the first read. — Fawad Khan Copy Share Image
“This week we'll be learning about key elements of high quality picture books. Using the award winner lists in our course materials,… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Andy [Hertzfeld], just by nature, is one of these straight shooters. A very moral guy, kind of an open book. Along with… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
I love short stories - reading and writing them. The best short stories distill all the potency of a novel into a… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager.… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“Literature keeps presenting the most vicious things to us an entertainment, but what it appeals to is not any pleasure of these… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
One of my big revelations was that nobody cares whether you write your novel or not. They want you to be happy.… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in. — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art. — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
“People are the same except for the books they read and the people they meet” — Charlie Jones Copy Share Image
I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
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