Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Those who believe everything they read probably should refrain from reading.” — Matt Copy Share Image
“In the pages of a book, you can find the universe within a single heartbeat.” — Umesha Chathurangi Handapangoda Copy Share Image
Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it. — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I was born in Japan and raised in Japan, but those are the only things that make me Japanese, I've grown up… — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved… — Thorne Smith Copy Share Image
My name became a brand and I'd love to say it was the plan from the start. But the only plan was… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time. — Lee Child Copy Share Image
I didn't have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction. — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Poor things were laden down and they were only youngsters. When I went to school at their age we had a couple… — Al K. Line Copy Share Image
“To those who’ve touched my life and made me who I am today, I say this: A different person could have told… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
“There's a third and final book in The Three series planned out, but it isn't written yet. I have one more standalone… — Sarah Lotz Copy Share Image
“Mr. Brock’s account of his adventure in London has given the reader some short notice of his friend, Mr Macshane. Neither the… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“She moved through it carrying her fat book, attracted, unsure, a stranger, wanting to feel relevant but knowing how much of a… — Pynchon Copy Share Image
In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“I want to come on every inch of your body,” he whispered, and somehow it didn’t sound dirty at all. It sounded… — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
“The techno-political thriller and the romance novel serve as antidotes to the imagination rather than stimulants to it. For this reason they… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
My neighbors don't care that I'm an author. It's inherently ego-inhibiting. — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales. — Matt Prior Copy Share Image
Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read. — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
“I slipped into art to escape life. I sneaked off into literature.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
Young readers can sense when you're not addressing what's actually going on. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
