I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy. — Johann Heinrich Lambert Copy Share Image
I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing about writing a novel is getting it published.” — Marianne Cushing Copy Share Image
I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“She was still clutching the book. She was holding desperately on to the words who had saved her life.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I'm not of a science background, I was never a comic book geek, and I was never a gamer. — Niall Matter Copy Share Image
I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“5And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was standing above all the people; and when… — Jack Hayford Copy Share Image
“Of course the moment I saw the books, I was overcome with pleasure. This always happens with me. I feel foolishly safe… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Over the four years we have made massive progress: winning the League Championship (97/98); building the largest club stadium in the UK… — Fergus McCann Copy Share Image
“I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“BETH READ THROUGH the report on her computer screen three times. This was something her father had taught her. Read through once… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
We know that when people learn to communicate effectively with each other, their lives and their relationships can be truly transformed. This… — Thomas Gordon Copy Share Image
“lemonade, suntan lotion, books, espadrilles, sunglasses, colored pens, and music, which he listened to with headphones, so that it was impossible to… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Like dreaming, reading performs the prodigious task of carrying us off to other worlds. But reading is not dreaming because books, unlike… — Victor Null Copy Share Image
“In fact, ladies and gentlemen, I have never read any good book that was not related intimately to at least a score… — Maurice Francis Egan Copy Share Image
“There seems to me a thousand occasions when my soul knows more than it can tell, and a has a spirit of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Novels teach you that actions have consequences. They help you grow up. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Books only change the world if the world is capable of digesting them.” — Luther Blissett Copy Share Image
“Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?” — Michael Gruber Copy Share Image
I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets. — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
“Fred Kofman, a former MIT professor and author of Conscious Business” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
The reason truth is stranger than fiction is that truth has a better author. — Stuart Taylor Copy Share Image
I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting. — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
“We need readers,” muttered Daniel Chard. “More readers. Fewer writers.” — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted. — George Stephen Copy Share Image
