“The more i read, the more precisely i predict, the more right i am” — Parimal Patil Copy Share Image
“If you don't love what you write, then nobody's going to enjoy reading it.” — T.A. Uner Copy Share Image
“Books are like a disease. Once you've got it, it's incurrable and lifelong” — Janice Young Brooks Copy Share Image
Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I think one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they've read. — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein. — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
“My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me “a purveyor of insipid… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music. — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
“I leafed through the phrase book. If a Martian read it, the Martian would probably decide to avoid Hungary.” — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“Quietly as possible, I unzip my backpack at the foot of my bed and feel around for my journal and the tiny… — Kristin Rae Copy Share Image
The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is always sort of unnerving to hear from people who've read my books. I'm not reading any of the reviews and… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“I would like [my readers] to better understand human beings and human life as a result of having read [my] stories. I'd… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
There's a lot of sub-conscious stuff you may write but you don't then suddenly sit down and take out your analytical books… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“This book, I believe, has turned out to be not quite fact and not quite fiction, but something in between. I wonder… — Kyung-Sook Shin Copy Share Image
Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got. — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
What I really try to do is take different pages out of different players books. — Chris Paul Copy Share Image
A novel is not just a work of art: It is somehow a work of life as well. — George P Elliott Copy Share Image
“Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“...the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon.” — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. — Dimebag Darrell Copy Share Image
The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Since when did you start plucking books off the children's shelf, Leona?” — Elizabeth Lynn Casey Copy Share Image
![“I would like [my readers] to better understand human beings and human life as a result of having read [my] stories. I'd like them to feel that this was an experience that made things better for them and an experience that gave them hope. I think that the kind of things that we talk about at this…” quote by Gene Wolfe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/010/gene-wolfe-2530_books_i-would-like-my-readers-to-better-unders_1168633.jpg)
