I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book. — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by nonmusical things a lot, whether it's a film or a book or whatever. — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
Books don't prattle. Books don't make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It's a very satisfying partnership. — Carol Berg Copy Share Image
“If the past was what we were meant to see. Then behind, not in front, our eyes would be. Author Unknown” — Nazarea Andrews Copy Share Image
I'm a reader for lots of reasons. On the whole, I tend to hang out with readers, and I'm scared they wouldn't… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
One of the glories of doing the book So You Want to Be President? was the shifts in tone, where I was… — David Small Copy Share Image
I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
The particularity of each New Testament author was in no way smothered by the unique process of inspiration. On the contrary, the… — John Stott Copy Share Image
I have people who buy my books just so they can sit them around and show them off because of the titles,… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
I like to take certain aspects of genre fiction and modify them in my own way. 'Your Republic Is Calling You' follows… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
“It is not enough that I hold an inspired book in my hands. I must have an inspired heart ... Revelation is… — A W Tozer Copy Share Image
“Following the release of Yoga Anatomy in the summer of 2007, its success took everyone by surprise. As of this writing it… — Leslie Kaminoff Copy Share Image
“There is a book called the Voynich Manuscript which is written in a script that is completely unknown and appears to be… — Jack Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Coraline had watched all the videos. She was bored with her toys, and she'd read all her books.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books are the true means of acquiring talent. If one does not read one remains ignorant, and ignorance can never produce true… — Francesco Albani Copy Share Image
'The Hobbit' by J. R. R. Tolkien was the first book I enjoyed. I was 14 and when I finished I started… — Nigel Lythgoe Copy Share Image
I think our job is to trust our readers. I think our job is to see and to let ourselves be seen.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
“But more importantly in my book of life, it's what you can't buy with money that is often more important than what… — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Sometimes I felt like my columns were like little novels in themselves. But I wasn't writing what I believed. I'm not interested… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks. — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. It tells… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“...books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
“The roadmap is right in front of you, and your suck can finally be behind you if you execute the plans developed… — Nate Green Copy Share Image
“Writing this book is not just me encouraging others to lean in. This is me leaning in. Writing this book is what… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important. — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated. — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“Should women read, Miss Caine? There’s a question for you. Does it excite them too much?” — John Boyne Copy Share Image
His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Some days I wish I were a character from a book with set lines to say and the best possible ending written… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
