“In my book, there is no failure, only the unknown revealed through action.” — Marion Bekoe Copy Share Image
Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“People are the same except for the books they read and the people they meet” — Charlie Jones Copy Share Image
“Erotic Romance authors are just hopeless romantics with a dirty mind.” — Audri Nichols Copy Share Image
“Dipping a cockroach in ink and having it scamper around the page would have left more legible traces to the average reader.” — Colin Cotterill Copy Share Image
Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.… — Latest Copy Share Image
Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Frederick Ward thought novels immoral and had been known to leave the room rather than subject himself to "bohemian" opinions.” — Donald McCaig Copy Share Image
Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
As the writer of this book [Lincoln in the Bardo], what I loved was the feeling of having so many surprises come… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Self-Management If you can read just one book on motivation—yours and others: Dan Pink, Drive If you can read just one book… — Michael Bungay Stanier Copy Share Image
...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I actually didn't read the book [Fast Food Nation]. I wasn't aware of it. But when I read the script, I thought… — Wilmer Valderrama Copy Share Image
Every book leaves its mark on you. It might leave you hungry for that kind of book or you may be satiated,… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art. — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in. — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Books don't only furnish a room: they also make the best holiday gifts. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
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