“(smile not, reader, for those were days in which men believed in the devil);” — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The script for 'Trainspotting' was amazing, and it was different from the book. — Jonny Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
There's a lot of 'how to adopt' books, but there's no practical resource for, say, school supplies. — Karamo Brown Copy Share Image
Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end. — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
“Their house had real hard-cover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he were back… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
Many things embarrass me, but reading isn't one of them. I'm not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
I do think of 'The Idiot,' in a way, as a self-standing book about a certain struggle to make meaning, the struggle… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the blank pages of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“I know that as long as my book is out there—and books are forever—what happened in Prijedor is not going to be… — Sanela Ramic Jurich Copy Share Image
