Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“...novels do not begin the way you want them to, but the way they want to.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“You need to read some Agatha Christie, man. Why? Am I being punished?” — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world. — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
“Romantic novels, the kissing scenes, the ditching scenes have taught the youth of India more English than all the English classes in… — Sneha Mehta Copy Share Image
“When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life.” — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Do I think that, when we're teaching a book at school, should we go through a myriad list of trigger warnings? No.… — Sam Levinson Copy Share Image
I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write. — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one." ―Salman Rushdie” — Jim Denney Copy Share Image
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book,… — James Wright Copy Share Image
“Although it’s not just plants and animals that die out, so do books. Quite often, I’m sorry to say. I’m sure you… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
This is much more than your typical thriller. Tim Johnston has written a book that makes Gone Girl seem gimmicky . .… — Alan Cheuse Copy Share Image
There are several sources for my appreciation of pastors and the way they are described in this book. One of them is… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“I, too, like the sound of the rain on the roof. I also like the lightning. It's like some great cosmic flashlight.… — Jon Scieszka Katie DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The reason I'm writing funny books is that I wish there were more. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
ATLANTA NIGHTS is sure to please the reader who enjoys this sort of thing. — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world. — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
Books make great gifts because they're something you love that you can share. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
