The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature. — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
Reading is looked at like it's corny or lame, but you'd be surprised what you can find in a book. — Jaylen Brown Copy Share Image
To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“And just like in his horror movies and books, people did stupid things when faced with overwhelming stress and fear.” — Hunter Shea Copy Share Image
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I… — Matthew William Goode Copy Share Image
Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the… — Richard Henry Stoddard Copy Share Image
“This book does not exist. And even if it did, it wouldn’t be worth buying or reading.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book… — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
“One ought to know everything, to write. All of us scribblers are monstrously ignorant. If only we weren’t lacking in stamina, what… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Interestingly enough, whenever I cite examples from superhero comic books in a lecture, my students never wonder when they will use this… — James Kakalios Copy Share Image
“From the cover blurb on the University of Wisconsin Press edition, writer unknown: Discussing memoirs, diaries, collaborative narratives, photo documentaries, essays, and… — G. Thomas Couser Copy Share Image
“RE: Kindle, iPad, et cetera: For a researcher, these new ways of accessing information are just extraordinary. I thing it introduces the… — Leah Price Copy Share Image
To have a successful writing career, you must be willing to sacrifice a great deal. The book, the deadline come first before… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
“He tries to go to life. So does every author except the very worst, but after all most of them live on… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to write a book. — Thomas Keller Copy Share Image
“I am not entirely persuaded that selling a book is like selling a pig.” — Kathleen A. Flynn Copy Share Image
A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches. — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas. — Pete Hautman Copy Share Image
Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear. — Scott Carpenter Copy Share Image
What a joy Mary Jo Putney is to read; she can't write fast enough for me. — Laura Kinsale Copy Share Image
He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
