“Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
I mean, I'm on a comic book. I'm in a video game. This is not real life. — Mary Wiseman Copy Share Image
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online. — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Learned to love the fact recognized in the books seems to be only good things, O world, we capture the essence of… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
“If you're a college student, the equivalent of a weeks reading for classes, can be about the same amount of a book.… — Tiffany Acevedo Copy Share Image
Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions. — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“An American near Billy wailed that he had excreted everything but his brains. Moments later he said, “There they go, there they… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“So!' he said, at length, and it came as a complete surprise to me that fellows ever really do say 'So!'. I… — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
One second ago, I was the youngest person on the set, and now I'm the oldest. I'm so old, my joints hurt… — Courteney Cox Copy Share Image
“Aspiring authors, get this through your head. Cover art serves one purpose, and one purpose only, to get potential customers interested long… — Larry Correia Copy Share Image
I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works. — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
“What are your favorite books? What do you dream about? Whom do you love?” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
“Do you have any books the faculty doesn't particularly recommend?” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image