“Kinky was only okay if it didn't lead to a broken neck, in his book.” — Jean Johnson Copy Share Image
What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“A funny yet interesting read, Will Self knowa his stuff and must do a lot of deep research.” — Will Self Copy Share Image
People joked that Forster became more renowned with every book he did not write. — Paul Gray Copy Share Image
I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“My heart is firmly fixed, O God, my heart is fixed” (Ps. 57:7, The Book of Common Prayer, 664). The” — Jane Tomaine Copy Share Image
When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I never, ever decided that I had to write a novel because, to me, there's no such decision that ought to be… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading… — Rupert Sanders Copy Share Image
Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful… — Stephanie S. Tolan Copy Share Image
What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“And at 3am you sit near the window and wonder if there is magic... because all you need are some fairies to… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me… — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
“...both Tom and I adore detective stories. Isn't that so, Tom?" [Lady Brace] "Right!" agreed her husband…"But they've got to be proper… — Carter Dickson Copy Share Image
Whoever lacks the initiative to read books stifles his own selfhood, — Carl F. H. Henry Copy Share Image
I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them. — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“I don't need to read nothing,' said the New Zealander. 'I was there.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
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