“There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.” — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom. — Plato Copy Share Image
“When we're onstage we're not literature, we're sitcom. You have to have catchphrases.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl!” — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my… — Bridget Carpenter Copy Share Image
to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“No book is really a fixed object. Every reader reads a book differently, and each book works in a different way on… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
“Far from being writers—founders of their own place, heirs of the peasants of earlier ages now working on the soil of language,… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
“Studying a book that was finished nearly two thousand years ago may appear to some like an interesting but somewhat impractical pursuit.… — John Snyder Copy Share Image
With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“She even tried the one which every romantic nerve in her body insisted should work, which consisted of theatrically giving up, sitting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I think it's degrading of you, Flora,' cried Mrs Smiling at breakfast. 'Do you truly mean that you don't ever want to… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids. — Jennie Garth Copy Share Image
“... to lend a book is an incitement to theft." A Reader on Reading p. 281” — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I used to read a lot of Steinbeck, and I admired Roger Miller and Bob Dylan. — John Prine Copy Share Image
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
