“Stress is a disease that can deteriorate the brain. Cure; Read, Garden, Swim.” — Jennifer Collins Copy Share Image
“Every journalist has a novel inside him, which is an excellent place for it.” — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
After owning books, almost the next best thing is talking about them. — Charles Nodier Copy Share Image
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
AHA!" interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. "Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything. — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day. — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm not ever getting a Pulitzer prize and my books aren't on high school reading lists, but for better or worse I'm… — Carole Radziwill Copy Share Image
Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but… — Paul Scofield Copy Share Image
A writer can write an essay, but the writer can never control how that essay is interpreted by the reader. — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
“She had pronounced the words “New Books” with caution and regret, articulating them reluctantly, as if they were vulgar, even obscene words.… — Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt Copy Share Image
Reading history is good for all of us, he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It’s mostly pink. If you’re reading this… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“Creative writing is your ability to develop your inner tension, your libido, your supply of energy and electric charge, turning the charge… — Lara Biyuts Copy Share Image
Since I was a graduate student, I've done a lot of journalism on the side, for The Village Voice, The Nation etc.… — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
To me, a poem is almost like someone whispering to another person, or you hear the whispering in your head. I hope… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“In his book After Virtue, philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre likened the present cultural moment to the fall of the Roman Empire in the… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
“I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature and criticism… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you judge a book by it's cover, you might miss out on an amazing story. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
