My neighbors don't care that I'm an author. It's inherently ego-inhibiting. — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales. — Matt Prior Copy Share Image
The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books. — Francois Mitterrand Copy Share Image
My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes. — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“If the reader needs a dictionary to read your book then the dictionary may turn out to be a more interesting read.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them. — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
“It’s a novel, right? What’s it about?” Why did people ask “What is it about?” as if a novel had to be… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“So how does it feel?” is the reasonable question you hear a lot when your book completes the long ascent from production… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“After a first novel—"Racing in the Rain" (2012)— introducing a Caribbean, steaming in post-colonial turbulence, Ken Puddicombe follows up with Junta, another… — MiddleRoad Publishers Copy Share Image
“disputing about those already made. I therefore never answered M. Nollet, and the event gave me no cause to repent my silence;… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) … It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Those who believe everything they read probably should refrain from reading.” — Matt Copy Share Image
“In the pages of a book, you can find the universe within a single heartbeat.” — Umesha Chathurangi Handapangoda Copy Share Image
Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it. — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks. — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
