The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“You haven't learned anything, until you've read a good book.” — Jazmeen Osae-Kwapong Copy Share Image
For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Don't buy a book if you think that it can make you educated only by reading it. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature. — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'Harry Potter' because it's like lightning… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books? — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
“When asked why I write psychological horror, I always reply that this form is the most intimate way to reach a reader.… — Wayne Allen Sallee Copy Share Image
He pointed the gun at me. Then he looked up at my hand & tilted his head slightly. - Journey, he said.… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
What I really wanted wasn't what I thought I was supposed to want. It wasn't what people had told me I should… — Sara Benincasa Copy Share Image
I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just… — Paul Westerberg Copy Share Image
I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
“In his great book How to Do Things with Words (1962), J.L. Austin considers the apparently simple sentence "France is hexagonal." He… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
One question that often comes up is why, in this age of blogs and tweets and instant digital communication of all kinds,… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“The truth!" we demanded. "Oh, the truth," she stammered, "the truth has nothing to do with literature," and sitting down she refused… — Virgina Woolf Copy Share Image
“Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Anyone who's indifferent to the fate of Edwin Drood is okay in my book.” — James Owen Copy Share Image
...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that. — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The book that made me cry hardest was 'Stoner,' by John Williams. — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
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