Books didn't make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books. — Jackson Pearce Copy Share Image
Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life. — Louise Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
“I pretended to be an open book, but I was closed off and conceited.” — Coco J. Ginger Copy Share Image
I think books are about people that are retired or at the end of their careers. — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
“I’ve lowered my character with a great deal of unwholesome reading material.” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I've adapted my own work a couple of times, and I've also given my novels to other people to adapt, and I… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking. — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
“Everyone who is 12 and reads a book has a good chance to get 13 or even 70 and read it again” — Burkhard Spinnen Copy Share Image
A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
My brother-in-law wrote an unusual murder story. The victim got killed by a man from another book. — Robert Sylvester Copy Share Image
The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno . — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity. — Herbert C. Brown Copy Share Image
“You probably think you know all about men, because you read a lot of romance novels, so you think you're an expert… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“literature, in fact, had been concerned with virtues and vices of a perfectly healthy sort, the regular functioning of brains of a… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
I finish the book so I can see how it's going to end. I write that first sentence, and if it's the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I didn't really enjoy reading until I married my wife and we began reading the Bible out loud to each other every… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
“Being ill when you are a child or growing up is such an enchanted interlude! The outside world, the world of free… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
“John lowered the book he'd been reading. "Im sorry. Were you speaking to me?" "I know you were listening, " I said… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
