“If you don't write with the reader in mind, you are not a writer, period.” — Tom Grimes Copy Share Image
I like to read. I like to spend time on the Net. I like to watch movies. — Arbaaz Khan Copy Share Image
“I thank everybody in this book for coming. -A.W., AUTHOR AND MEDIUM” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books. — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image
... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque. — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
“Like the roller coaster of life...novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.” — Carmen DeSousa Copy Share Image
“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways,… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Have you seen one of those fat books on ‘Good Parenting’? Well, it’s a good thing that these books are fat! Because,… — Rachna Singh Copy Share Image
Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff inside doesn't change.… — Kathryn Erskine Copy Share Image
I feel like you are allowed in fiction to embrace imagination and try to enter other worlds. And I feel like you… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and,… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“I have tried to outline, but all that seems to guarantee is that the book will not much resemble the outline, so… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
