Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned. — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up. — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
No reader wants to sit through the same scene four times in a row, unless they're radically different. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
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Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Surely it is better, thought Domenica, that forty-five should buy the book and actually read it, than should many thousands, indeed millions,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“You may think that you don't want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It's been a challenge for me my whole life in that my insides don't necessarily match my outsides... People try to strike… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
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In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's… — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
“Is it possible to write a reverent novel," said Nassrin, "and to have it be good?...” — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Reexamine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul.” — Walt Wyman Copy Share Image
Joey: Beth is really sick, I don't think they can do anything for her. Rachel: Joey, wanna put the book in the… — Friends Copy Share Image
I knew a bit about 'Emma' through the book when I was younger, but actually more from 'Clueless'. — Josh O'Connor Copy Share Image
I was anticipating that some readers might misread [the book] ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
College students shouldn't be forced to choose between text books and their next meal. — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
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Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers. — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
I'd always been a kid that loved literature, reading, writing - anything to do with words - so music was just a… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
When I'm talking to someone I think 'can I use this dialogue in a book,'" said Luis. "If the answer is no… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
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The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become — Sheridan Hay Copy Share Image
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Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“Even a dull life could make worthwhile reading, he said, provided the writer paid sufficient attention to detail.” — Susan Hubbard Copy Share Image
“The only possible relation among genders is lust, rest of the emotions are just the degrees of it. - From the book,… — Educationist Rana Vikram Singh Copy Share Image
“Popular young adult novels notwithstanding, vampires only sparkle when they burn.” — Elliott James Copy Share Image