Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." ~ Jane Austen” — Lisa Lim Copy Share Image
Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony. — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Race is the true protagonist of the American novel. Our most popular classic fictions have known this, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Beloved;'… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“If you grew up in a rural area, you have seen how farmhouses come and go, but the dent left by cellars… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
“Let me alone," said Mildred "Let you alone!" He almost cried out with laughter. "Letting you alone is easy, but how can… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I usually start with something that has some energy, like a compressed character or a situation that's wound up like a spring.… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
What I loved about romances was the character, and I think I still bring that to my novels. What romance taught me… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, "whether in the stands or on… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world. — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I dont want to write a book; I dont want to go on T.V., because I stink at it. The only thing… — Patti Hansen Copy Share Image
The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The short story is not, as some believe, a lesser form of literature than the novel.” — Andrew Barger Copy Share Image
You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion. — Alan Cooper Copy Share Image
“I want to bury my head in books like in pillows and breathe in stories like air.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“If I knew your thoughts, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you who you are. By changing our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein. — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I think one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they've read. — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The writer, as I see it, has the right of way, so it's up to the reader to look out. — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
“You have to create your own space which has a lot of silence in it and a lot of books.” — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers. — Andrew Wylie Copy Share Image
Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me “a purveyor of insipid… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“I leafed through the phrase book. If a Martian read it, the Martian would probably decide to avoid Hungary.” — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
