I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood. — Steve Schirripa Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money. — John Lyly Copy Share Image
“Believers today are to obey the Scriptures, just as in the first century.” — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature. — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is… — Victor J. Banis Copy Share Image
“The good thing about a self-help book is that if you misunderstand something then it won't mock you.” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
You can read 10,000 quips and quotes and pearly notes but the best wealth to find is held within your own mind. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“Ink, dark as night, creates words, and as they are read, they become the little beads and baubles of the mind.” — Suzanne Valtsioti Copy Share Image
I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person. — Terrell Owens Copy Share Image
Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
“When someone says, 'I admire your character,' I never know whether the person is talking about my ethics or referring to someone… — Stifyn Emrys Copy Share Image
Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to… — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
“The existence of any library, even mine, allows readers a sense of what their craft is truly about, a craft that struggles… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
If I had followed my own rules - if I had eaten my own dog food - I would have created a… — Jeff Jarvis Copy Share Image
I am never going to please all 100 million people who read the book. I'll be lucky if half that number are… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
“The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Everyone always talks about the magic of books being able to take you to other places, to let you see exotic worlds,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“The way to write a book is the application of the seat of one's pants to the seat of one's chair” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line” — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
As soon as my brain starts working on reading a book, my dreams get a little more exciting, and music comes a… — Yung Lean Copy Share Image
I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see. — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
I don't feel ignored. But I'd rather engage readers than dictate my opinion to them. Opinion is so...subjective! — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I might defend the reviewing trade, but a handful of haughty hired hands no longer having the last word on books is… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear. — Eric Burns Copy Share Image
“I tried to think of a good reason as to why I had a sex book down my pants, but my brain… — David LaRochelle Copy Share Image
I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great… — William Morris Copy Share Image
To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were… — James Broughton Copy Share Image
