I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies. — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
There must be every kind of books in your library. The most beautiful gardens are those with many different flowers, with all… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I'm a thirty-something gay man with a dodgy heart. I sell books for a living. Who wants to read about that? — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s. — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You’re terrifying the way a book is right before it ends. You know? When you have to put it down because it’s… — Cecilia Vinesse Copy Share Image
“Bertolt Brecht: I would also like to be wise. In the old books it says what wisdom is: To shun the strife… — Madeleine Thien Copy Share Image
An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way… — Edith Hall Copy Share Image
It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
One of my favorite stories growing up was A Wrinkle in Time. I loved that book. I still remember the image, so… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
“For no reason that she could discern, she put down the novel and picked up her cell phone. She was lonely, yes,… — Ron Parsons Copy Share Image
The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and… — Tessa Jowell Copy Share Image
“Great art is anything that provokes a deep emotinal reaction at the time that you hear it and then you can't get… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
