Goodbyes hurt when the story is not finished and the book has been closed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Oh, yes, dear reader: the essay is alive. There is no reason to despair.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Dedicated to book lovers and book bloggers everywhere, those large and small.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
There's no book to figure out how not to become a victim of police brutality. — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person. I'm sorry. — Hope Solo Copy Share Image
I am prolific. Any rubbish I write gets published, so books keep churning out. — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
“Live to learn and you'll learn to live. from the book 'I Know Who You Are!” — Fatima Masood Copy Share Image
“If a person reads a good book—they become permanently changed. They can’t even help it. They can’t unlearn what they’ve learned. It… — Loretta Lost Copy Share Image
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book? — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
“But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book is a fortress, a place of weeping, the key to a desert,… — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Librarians are hot. They have knowledge and power over their domain...It is no coincidence how many librarians are portrayed as having a… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
On another level I'd unfortunately read the books. I knew Barristan had a different story in the books and I was hoping… — Ian McElhinney Copy Share Image
A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Your life isn't some prerecorded movie where, no matter how many times you watch it, the ending remains the same. Your life… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Perhaps nothing escapes this fate but the liveliness and nimbleness of the mind—the very qualities with which the novel is written, qualities… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The idea behind the book is very simple. Every day we see young children completely absorbed in some video device like a… — Leonard Oestreicher Copy Share Image
Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
