I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women. — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
What is the task of the translator? I think the task depends on the book and on the translator. — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Remember when you first started your business? The enthusiasm you had? It's my job as the author of this book to restore… — Chris C. Ducker Copy Share Image
Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“This is the paradox of the power of literature: it seems that only when it is persecuted does it show its true… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon – your eye "sees" the story as well… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Books you have read share a deep ontological similarity with books you haven't: both can be profoundly fuzzy. At times books you… — john durham peters Copy Share Image
“From these two broad examples we draw two morals for our readers: Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
People read vampire novels and say, 'Oh I want to read another vampire novel.' People read fantasy, and they're like, 'Oh I… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Here then we are first to consider a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, written in an age… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“I understood books. I did not understand boys—especially alien boys.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“The people in books become more real to you than any one in actual life.” — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I consciously try not to play favorites with my characters or my books. — Tina St. John Copy Share Image
Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“Librarians know books, we live books, we breathe books, we are books.” — Jenny Levine Copy Share Image
It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
