We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I always grew up with the idea that in order to be a successful writer, I should have a book published. — Leandra Medine Copy Share Image
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense)… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
If there is a perfect book to start the year with it has to be Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch. — The Edge Copy Share Image
“We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I look around and pay attention to what around me is not being talked about, and then I talk about it with… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
The writers who have been serious about recreating American literature have always been far and few between. What we do have at… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
It's somewhat of a contradiction, .. I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
I didn't know how story worked. So, when writing the screenplay, people introduced me to the science of it. And I'm grateful.… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
It started out as a typically insane idea to map every part of the published text in terms of its manuscript provenance… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
Is it too ingenuous to imagine that anything can be left to say about a garden? Garden literature, descriptive, reminiscent, and technical,… — Harrison Gray Otis Dwight Copy Share Image
WARNING: The following is a transcript of a digital recording. In certain places, the audio quality was poor, so some words and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves. — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“Originally, the Gossip Girl series of books was going to be turned into a single feature film. Starring Lindsay Lohan.” — Jack Goldstein Copy Share Image
If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
“We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I didn't want to write a 'black' book because black characters are a tough sell. — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in love. There… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
I don't want people reading my books just because they're horror or mysteries. I want them to read them because they're Joe… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures. (Face palm!)” — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out. — B C Forbes Copy Share Image
“So here, too, we see the need for a deeper work of the Holy Spirit, since he is the author of unity,… — John R.W. Stott Copy Share Image
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn… — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting. — Clive James Copy Share Image
A fantasy novel set in something other than medieval Europe, featuring an almost entirely black cast, is considered risky. — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
