Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“No one cares about books, that’s why you can write anything you want in them.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.” — Allison Hoover Bartlett Copy Share Image
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“The best horror novels open up, "It was beautiful summer day and the smell of flowers emanated throughout the air.” — Justin Alcala Copy Share Image
“Horror writers shouldn't play nice. Disturb & unnerve your reader. Make them uncomfortable, but not so much they stop reading.” — Pamela Morris Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
Oh, everything's too damned expensive these days. Like this Bible. It cost 15 bucks! And talk about a preachy book! Everybody's a… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case,… — Frederick Locker-Lampson Copy Share Image
Books are the spiritual and intellectual food of the mind, and reading is a great enjoyment for those who desire to improve… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The people who decided in their wisdom that we're all going to go over to ebooks, they are not readers. These are… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“When we approach the spiritual journey with an open and teachable spirit, we will continue to gain fresh insights from the Word… — Kenneth D. Boa Copy Share Image
When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained in free… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books… — George Polya Copy Share Image
A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I… — Kim Smith Copy Share Image
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
“I want to be the apostle of self destruction. I want my book to affect man’s reason, his emotions, his nerves, his… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I love 'House of Cards.' I would watch Kevin Spacey read the phone book. — Alexandra Daddario Copy Share Image
Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp, — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“If you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings. — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
Cartoons only showed you certain things. The comic books go in deep. — Derrick Favors Copy Share Image
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything. — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands. — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
