I pity those who have no taste for reading. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
But I'm not the first person in the Royal Family to bring out a book. — Princess Michael of Kent Copy Share Image
“There's a book of poetry in the lines of my hands that no one wants to read” — Holly Schindler Copy Share Image
I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
If I could get someone like John Grisham or someone like that to sit down and write a book with me, I'd… — Keith Jackson Copy Share Image
“In the peculiar alchemy of literature, the daughter was adept at creating in fiction what she had not known in her own… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read. — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
“Books are our windows on the world. They permit us to safely experience other lives and ways of thinking and feeling. Books… — Harry Mazer Copy Share Image
“You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
One of my books, called 'Moscow Station,' revealed that a KGB archivist had defected from Russia to the FBI. And I knew… — Ronald Kessler Copy Share Image
Auditions are already the worst thing in the world. They're so nerve-racking. It's so unfair to ask someone to show you all… — Melissa Barrera Copy Share Image
“Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill reader. I choose purswes based on whether I can cram a paperback into them,… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
“Poorly written books are a kin to actors forgetting their lines.” — Peggy Randall-Martin Copy Share Image
Every love is a story that's one chapter short of a book you cannot read. — Colby Tatem Copy Share Image
“In the Hitler years we still believed in books enough to burn them. Imagine,” — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“You are quick to catch the author's intentions and nothing escapes you” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Change lies sleeping within books, just waiting for the covers to be opened.” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
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Move on it's just a chapter in the past turn the page but don't close the book — Tamika-leeigh Copy Share Image
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