[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample. — Janice Dickinson Copy Share Image
Russian literature saved my soul. When I was a young girl in school and I asked what is good and what is… — Irina Ratushinskaya Copy Share Image
I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Don't die with your wisdom and experiences longing to live forever after you are gone: write a book.” — Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana Copy Share Image
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like… — Antony Sher Copy Share Image
I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years! — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I'm writing a book called Stop Overreacting. If you guys don't buy it I'm going to kill myself. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You were firing questions at me today, trying to get inside my head. You asked if I believed in God. I told… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Indeed, being a beginner is very difficult right now. Book publishers are in a crisis, sales are dwindling, and publishing houses are… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
I have never written a novel that volleys back and forth between a couple of different first person perspectives. It's definitely a… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“The authors (Habsburg military personnel) invariably show some surprise when recounting a respectable performance of a regiment during its Italian period and… — Lawrence Sondhaus Copy Share Image
The 'Womanthology' book got a lot of people jobs, inside and outside the industry, and I think stuff like that tends to… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“We read to learn about the world. We write to change the world.” — Lori Jamison Rog Copy Share Image
Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I like books that explore identity and youth culture or rites of passage. — Emily Weiss Copy Share Image
“We are as liable to be corrupted by books as we are by companions.” — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
A book is a silent teacher, and a precious and indispensable companion in life. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Life is like a Popup Book , getting surprised as you watch things unfold. — Jennifer Amorelli Copy Share Image
I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years. — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image