If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80. — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“A person that doesn't read and doesn't have any ethics complaining about a writer feels like a Chihuahua barking at a Rottweiler.” — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels. — David Grann Copy Share Image
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I tend to start books with a very broad outline, but I always leave room for happy accidents. With 'The Passenger,' there… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down,… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the… — Thomas Bowdler Copy Share Image
“It's the same with books, you see mounds of them in bookshops and you want to read them all, or at least… — Andrés Neuman Copy Share Image
If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Once you know a habit exists, you have the responsibility to change it . . . others have done so . .… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
“To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list. ~John Aikin” — John Aikin Copy Share Image
How you going to stop me, cupcake? Hit me with your book bag?" "If I have to. — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“Do you consider yourself a blessing or just another person?” — Jonathan Anthony Burkett Copy Share Image
Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet. — Sean Wilentz Copy Share Image
You can buy [John McCain's] book, but in a week and a half, he'll have another. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
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