If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money. — John Lyly Copy Share Image
I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood. — Steve Schirripa Copy Share Image
After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. It's always a little bittersweet, too. — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to keep things rich for me creatively and for the readers who follow me. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I use a system called Vector Green Reading, which applies science to the green reads. — Bryson DeChambeau Copy Share Image
“From that time forward it has been hard for me not to think of literature as created primarily to give writers the… — Caroline Rody Copy Share Image
So much work went into this book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"] - you can probably tell from looking at the… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Read more. Read. Read. Read. Deeply, widely, read. Learn all kinds of subjects. The smarter you are as an actor, the better… — Steve Guttenberg Copy Share Image
The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“It had been hard for months. Sleep would curl slowly around him while he was reading a book, sleep would trick him… — Catherine O'Flynn Copy Share Image
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“From the book Fay-nights - Rule Four: There are no different cultures, only ways yet to be learnt: There are no different… — Miggy J. Noble Copy Share Image
“Stories start in all sorts of places. Where they begin often tells the reader of what to expect as they progress. Castles… — Rebecca McKinsey Copy Share Image
If you look at the best-seller list, it is mostly thrillers. Very few books attempt to create an image of the life… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature. — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“Believers today are to obey the Scriptures, just as in the first century.” — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny. — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends. — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book. — Dakota Blue Richards Copy Share Image
“A hard choice. Water or books. Hmm. One could always have wine instead.” — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
My idea of the perfect day is nothing to do and a great book on the go. — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
“Never give more time to reading a book than to reflecting upon its contents.” — Frank Morton McMurry Copy Share Image
“I write because the book I want to read has not been written yet.” — Richard HR Penn Copy Share Image