“My life's an open book. Some of the pages are a little ripped, but it's open.” — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head. — Honor Blackman Copy Share Image
Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too. — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
When I am near the end of a book, I have to sleep in the same room with it. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I read both in French and English and often a couple of books at once, mixing fiction and non-fiction. — Pauline Chalamet Copy Share Image
While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Some swore the cats had been caught pawing through the pages of open books - reading.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'... It was a book I read when I was younger, and it just changed… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child." — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
“A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.” — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
Every single person that spent a few bucks to buy a book that I wrote deserves a big thank you from my… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of… — Gwee Li Sui Copy Share Image
“I wake up and read although Nietzsche says that’s foolish. A sort of narcotic, reading. I read with my hands down the… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“Many times when I read a book, I want to savor each word, each phrase, each page, loving the prose so much,… — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“I’m writing a book, one letter at a time. After thirteen days, I just finished writing “Once upon a time.” Since it’s… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I like to be asked about the projects I'm working on. I like to be asked about the books I'm reading, the… — Emily Ratajkowski Copy Share Image
“By the hairy ass of lord hell." Many characters in the Deverry Cycle Novels” — Katharine Kerr Copy Share Image
I was a comic book nut and grew up on 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones.' — Christian Borle Copy Share Image
“The people in books become more real to you than any one in actual life.” — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I consciously try not to play favorites with my characters or my books. — Tina St. John Copy Share Image
