“A good book is always good, no matter how many times you've already read it.” — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed. — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“To read books seriously is to be staggered by the knowledge of how many more books will remain beyond your ken. It’s… — James Falllows Copy Share Image
I don't read about myself, and I don't read any magazine that has anything to do with movies or show business. — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
I just thought it made sense to call a book 'Not Garbage,' even though the majority of it was going to be… — Leo Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
'Presumed Innocent' was written over a six to seven year period with intervals in between where I was figuring out the end… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
It is quite clear that beauty does depend on one's culture and upbringing for certain kinds of beauty, pictures, literature, poetry and… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
With screenplays and teleplays, they are mapped, really, in the blueprint of a finished product, which is something you're going to watch… — Michael Imperioli Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's why I prefer this new library to my own bedroom: looking at the million book spines, I can imagine a… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
“They've written songs about this feeling, and poems and books, and movies. All of them telling us to live each moment like… — Dan Skinner Copy Share Image
“Life is the most effective school ever created. Once upon a time they made children bow their heads and read books. It… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“In the shop we buy & sell them, but in truth books have no owner.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Through books we converse with the wisest and the greatest men of the past. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
To come out and meet kids who have my books in their hands is kind of amazing. — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
