It's not like most people read anymore. Well, not unless the book has a wizard school or a hot vampire. And, as… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
My father has a book where, ever since I started playing games... he wrote down the games that I played in. And… — Petr Cech Copy Share Image
“I wonder how many people have been killed, tortured, and in some cases cannibalized, all because certain Christians (mis)applied the book of… — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share Image
“If you have children, trust them completely, all the time, no matter what. If you don't trust them, pretend that you do.… — Lisa Moore Copy Share Image
When I was a kid... if I couldn't get a ride to the comic book store, I would walk a mile and… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka Copy Share Image
Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I am through generalizing about ideas apart from men who generate them. I am through writing books about the dead, or writing… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
“You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda.… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
One of the things about writing a novel is you can do it any way you want. It's your voice that's important… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And,… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“A considerable debt is owed to these, and to many other books. The aim, however, with Scotland: The Autobiography, has been to… — Rosemary Goring Copy Share Image
I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I love to read because I know that for a long time ancestors weren't allowed to. I love to write. Because for… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
A missionary should never permit himself to see a movie or (read) cheap literature, or hear music that tends to interfere with… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“Author challenges parents to bridge the gap with maturing, more independent kids with what he calls "Knock and Pray". He says parents… — Jay Payleitner Copy Share Image
“Even sheets felt different at the cottage. On certain days...the sheets were aired out in the sun. I slipped in between two… — Amy Willard Cross Copy Share Image
“When they arrived at the palace she had a word with Grant, the young footman in charge, who said it was security… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“It seems I had personally laid my past to rest and when writing volume two of my book, it reminded me how… — Christian S. Simpson Copy Share Image
“Make no mistake dear reader, this Depression was deliberately visited upon the world by the corrupt enemy within the halls of power… — Peter B. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I avoided watching anything which was someone else's interpretation of the source material. I didn't go back to the movies and watch… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
There's a village in my computer - friends, fans, readers, and colleagues. It's a populous, sometimes chaotic little burg always bustling with… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
“All the books were beginning to turn against me. Indeed, I must have been blind as a bat not to have seen… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“The study was slowly lit up as the candle was brought in. The familiar details came out: the stag's horns, the bookshelves,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I'm not, like, a book guy, but isn't the point of all this book stuff like what Ms. Croft was teaching us… — David Connis Copy Share Image
“By living, thinking, even dreaming the story in one continuous process, ideas came faster and faster. Sometimes the typewriter keys would fly… — Walter B Gibson Copy Share Image
I think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write,… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
I have a hunger for justice, but art is a place I've always enjoyed being able to be free - to live… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
“Take off my clothes and there becomes a man. Take off my skin and there becomes my bones. Break all my bones… — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
“I read so many romance novels someone should seriously cut my balls off and take my man card.” “Huh?” Kiersten wrinkled her… — Rachel Van Dyken Copy Share Image
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
If you do a little bit of looking at books with your children and inspire them to be curious about the pictures… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly… — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
My fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Poppy, had us each write a 'novel,' whatever that meant to us. It must have been 10 pages… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
