And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My creator owned books sell better than my mainstream books. And that makes no sense. — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
Sex scenes in books are always like first person, from this male perspective and just about how awesome he is. It feels… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say? — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
I've never tried to pass myself off as anything more than a comedian who wrote a dating book. — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again. — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It gives me a great pleasure to see my reader's reaction to whatever I write.. I can be a great writer... My… — Aireen Pontillo Copy Share Image
I grew up reading biographies on groups, and I love all that. The thing about biographies, it's the old cliché but it's… — Stevie Jackson Copy Share Image
“I wrote The Lord of the Rings because I wished ‘to try my hand at a really long story that would hold… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I think a writer should always be surprised; and the more I write, the more it seems that the language itself, when… — Ciaran Carson Copy Share Image
From an early age I loved horror movies. I read books about horror, cops, firemen and military. Over the course of the… — Ralph Sarchie Copy Share Image
“Orlando was unaccountably disappointed. She had thought of literature all these years (her seclusion, her rank, her sex must be her excuse)… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It's true that some commenters and email correspondents challenge writers to examine certain posts, but for the most part, blog readers are… — Audacia Ray Copy Share Image
No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon.com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
I've not chosen to learn to read print. I can read simple words but it's so tedious. — Mike May Copy Share Image
I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers. — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Chicago is my biggest base for U.S. readership. If I ask my readers where should I come, Chicago always has the most… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine. — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
“A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
With your eyes going sleepy, close your books, shut down your computer and walk towards your bed. Wishing you a very Good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance. — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
The different books I read till now seems to look Total waste, When I put my first step in Real Life.ª — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“There is no mistaking a good book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
