“Sometimes we chose the books we want to read and sometimes they chose us. ” — Rubin Carter Dr Copy Share Image
It takes me forever to read a book. I have such a small attention span. — Lewis Hamilton Copy Share Image
The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives. — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language. — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamt of by its author. — Stephen C Johnson Copy Share Image
“She’s been reading too much, he thought -had drifted across that line that separated what you might find in a book from… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film. — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality. — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
“Katherine Bone is an author after my own heart! DUKE BY DAY, ROGUE BY NIGHT is a sexy, adventurous romp guaranteed to… — Katherine Bone Copy Share Image
“In TIME June 7, 2010 On the sustainability of the publishing industry, in the Chicago Tribune: "I think that book publishing is… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I… — LaMarr Woodley Copy Share Image
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
John Stuart Mill, in his wonderful 1859 book On Liberty, talks about civility. And this is why you should always be concerned… — Greg Lukianoff Copy Share Image
If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. from the Book of Proverbs — Solomon Copy Share Image
Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend. — Marc Bolan Copy Share Image
Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Pan, our nemesis, the demon king of the Neverland, author of all our misery.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
