A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“As Don Everts says in his book Jesus with Dirty Feet, “Referring to the church as a building is like referring to… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write a book. Not a romance novel. Maybe a crime thriller. Something with action. Maybe that will happen… — Becky Sauerbrunn Copy Share Image
I'm living two blocks away from this library - and I don't know why I was so elated about this - but… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“when im really into a movel i'm seeing the world differntly during that time- not just for the hour or so in… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. I had always wanted to… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
“I wanted only to offer it to you plain and bare, unadorned by a prologue or the endless catalogue of sonnets, epigrams… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“Being a reader is how I choose to spend my life, every aspect of it, inside and outside of the classroom. I… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
I read some books, and I thought, 'This is better than sliced bread!' and a month later, I couldn't remember thinking about… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“the art of the novel revealed anything, it was that human nature was the great constant, in any culture, in any place,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“someone who lends his book is stupid, but one who returns it is stupider” — Darmanto Jatman Copy Share Image
Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'. — Barbara Park Copy Share Image
“Being able to read and knowing how to read are completely different concepts.” — S.A. Garcia Copy Share Image
“She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.” — Hilda Van Stockum Copy Share Image
Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.” — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
