He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Kalo nggak nulis, ya baca. Kalo nggak baca, ya nonton film saja lah.” — Sylvia L'Namira Copy Share Image
I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life. — George Whitman Copy Share Image
“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures. (Face palm!)” — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out. — B C Forbes Copy Share Image
“So here, too, we see the need for a deeper work of the Holy Spirit, since he is the author of unity,… — John R.W. Stott Copy Share Image
It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
Hungry for both fantasy and inspiration, readers crave protagonists who, after overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, triumph at the end of the day. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Yes I may be different and like things you don't but who are you to judge the cover of my book when… — Connor Sinnett Copy Share Image
Point-of-view is a matter that readers rarely pay attention to, yet it's one of the most important story decisions an author makes. — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories -… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“It's not macho to read? Nonsense. Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-itness. It is also, in my experience, one… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“In the book of Job, the Lord demands, “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?” “I was there!”-surely… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper. — Geoff Thompson Copy Share Image
Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers. — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
I was a terrible student. For me, to take a book home was a trial. — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
It's so important to read a book before bed and do some weird stretching. — Lady Amelia Windsor Copy Share Image
“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it. — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
