When the library book-drop overflows and volumes spill onto the wet grass, the books are over dew. — Green Monk Copy Share Image
One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book… — Matthew Reilly Copy Share Image
Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book. — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it:… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
I'm used to comic books being reimagined, different takes on some of our beloved superheroes. — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum. — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
I can read a four-page scene once and have it memorized. It's a skill you learn in school: disposable cramming. — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Most peasants did not miss the school. "What's the point?" they would say. "You pay fees and read for years, and in… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
“Create a guidebook of creative dreams You can use a blank book or just blank paper clipped together. Put photographs or scraps… — Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (SARK Copy Share Image
Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most… — John Clute Copy Share Image
“This is the explanation I used to have on the site before my page got turned into an author's page. Don't get… — D.R. Slaten Copy Share Image
“Will found it funny that people balked at paying retail price for a book, something that a writer poured his or her… — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
Regency literature was too coal-y for me, too long-winded and describey. I preferred modern books where you had to read other books… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
I want to write books that can truly become a legacy and bring benefits to people. — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrote a good 30 books in… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Most people are widely read. I'm thinly read. I've read *** all, and I'm very proud of it.” — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“Corrupt people fear books because they contain something more powerful than themselves: ideas.” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed. — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published.… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
“You are the sole author of the story of your life, my dear. Make it a good one.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community? — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I'm a total Twihard. I read all the books and saw every movie on opening night with my mom. — Cassie Scerbo Copy Share Image
There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
“sat down to write a book and instead left hilariously awesome comments across various statuses. You're welcome, Facebook.” — Jordan Krumbine Copy Share Image
We are the worst of fools if we do not teach every child to become truly expert, deep readers. — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
I read and write but my ideas don't go beyond the first draft. When they will, I will make it into a… — Antara Mali Copy Share Image
In America, you’re allowed to justify almost any kind of bigotry, sexism, or intolerance if you source it to God’s big book… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I try to read a Kindle Single a week, but I'm getting bad at that. I usually have a few books on… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through… — Varley O'Connor Copy Share Image
“If God did not wish us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.” — Dwight Lyman Moody Copy Share Image
You go to Florence and all the paintings you've seen in books are there. To see them in real life, it just… — Anh Do Copy Share Image
I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“And yet rereading a book can often be a more significant, dramatic, and, yes, new experience than encountering an unfamiliar work.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
Hegel's theory of recognition is basically derived from Fichte, who is its real author. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
