“Buying a book you've never read is like buying a dress you've never tried on” — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff. — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
For me a book has always been a chance to reach out and connect to someone and not be alone. — Margaret Stohl Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
I read "The Yoga Sutras" every day.And also the "The Bhagavad Gita." Those two books sit by my bed. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
“The dividing line between a journalist and an author is very thin. If a journalist is not author, it is his or… — K.S.R. Menon Copy Share Image
Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know? — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
If I read a script and I like it, there's nothing that will stop me from trying to be in that movie. — Brenton Thwaites Copy Share Image
Education ent only books and music - it's asking questions, all the time. There are millions of us, all over the country,… — Arnold Wesker Copy Share Image
“I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts--and they never fail to… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“Petrarch sometimes wrote letters to long-dead authors. He was also a dedicated hunter of classic manuscripts. Once, after discovering some previously unknown… — David Markson Copy Share Image
“What I want is much more complicated. I want somebody I can talk to about books, who would be my friend, and… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“This book was written under the umbrella of self-acceptance. The sooner we are okay with being different from one another, the sooner… — Becky Murphy Copy Share Image
It took my breath away, that evening. If you've ever dreamed that you walked into your best-loved book or film or TV… — Tana French Copy Share Image