For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Of course, each of us has to write our own book, live our own life. — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
“An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader.” — Darrell Case Copy Share Image
I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“I wanted you, precious reader, to feel the pain of the bullied, the neglected, the heartbroken, and the humiliated.” — K.M. Walton Copy Share Image
Anytime you start doing a comic book with mythology attached, people are like, "Are you going to get it right? It's important… — Tom Cavanagh Copy Share Image
I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“You're welcome. I love the bargain book section. I always find some good deals at more than half off the cover price.” — Amy Clipston Copy Share Image
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Meg was a great reader and was never without a book; while walking to school she often had one open in her… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The intention of this Book of The Law is perfectly simple. Whatever your sexual predilections may be, you are free, by the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“world; my brilliant, insightful and lovely UK editors Selina Walker and Georgina Hawtrey-Woore for believing and making things even better; Dan Balado… — Samantha Hayes Copy Share Image
“...you can't spend all your time alone…alone in your head…alone in your books…it's not healthy. We all need to learn to get… — Claire A. Murray Copy Share Image
The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I am gone tomorrow. And there and gone again by the time you read this.” — Salvador Plascencia Copy Share Image
“I open the book, the book moans / I cast for the times, the times are gone” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I want to read The Mark of Athena and The House of Hades by Rick Riordan!” — Carter Ebert Copy Share Image
“The three rules to writing a novel; 1) Write 2) Write more 3) Keep writing” — SciFurz Copy Share Image
All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
