I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution. — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
Find me a first novel that doesn't have parallels with the author's life. — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
I called the book 'The Senator Next Door,' not 'The President Next Door.' — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Buying a book you've never read is like buying a dress you've never tried on” — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“she pulled herself out of depression by escaping into the other worlds books offered.” — Elizabeth Hunter Copy Share Image
Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
“You could say we run a dating service. If you make a request, we can hook you up with some books that… — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
“Trellis wants his salutary book to be read by all. He realizes that purely a moralizing tract would not reach the public.… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Favourite directors change, like favorite authors. I had a passion for Gide and Stein and Faulkner. But now they're no use to… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books.… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The bands I like, they don't sell too many records and the girls I like, they don't kiss too many boys. Books… — Frank Turner Copy Share Image
“The book was written to embody an ideal. It was given to people who already had momentum in doing what was right.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff. — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died. — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“You didn’t complain when I came to keep you warm last night, author” — Chris d'Lacey Copy Share Image
Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
