One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature. — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“I have only met men like you in novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.” — Sachin Kundalkar Copy Share Image
“Books are like women, all more or less have the same form, buts its the intricacies of whats inside that makes them… — Dave Alexander Ramos me Copy Share Image
Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I… — David Macaulay Copy Share Image
“The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different from each other as… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.” — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The measure of a great writer is not how many weeks his books spend on the best-seller lists, but how many years… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will… — Osman Rashid Copy Share Image
“I show Dave the dummy for my book. He reads every bit of writing, looks at every picture, and asks no questions.… — Jim Goldberg Copy Share Image
The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
“Of a real, true contract, on whatsoever subject, there is no vestige in Rousseau's book. To give an exact idea of his… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
“The first unanalysed impression that most readers receive from Jane Eyre is that it has a very violent atmosphere. If this were… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“How can any one become a thinker if he does not spend at least a third part of the day without passions,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought. — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
My dad got me a chemistry book one Christmas and I burnt the garden shed down. I remember there was the most… — Beth Orton Copy Share Image
To be an author, and an executive producer, and a host, and I don't even know, I mean I actually have a… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
You are the author of your own life...Don't let others define it for you. Real power comes by doing what you are… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
There is a difference between a convert who is built on the rock of Christ through the Book of Mormon and stays… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“One of the best feelings in the world is reading a review by a complete stranger saying that your book is one… — Johnny Moscato Copy Share Image
My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity. — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.” — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
The thing about me and books is that whichever one I’m reading always reminds me of whatever’s happening in my life during… — Lauren Barnholdt Copy Share Image
When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling. — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
No matter what you write, it's a matter of putting words in a certain order so that the reader will be interested… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I was doing two things at once for quite a long time. I was working in television and writing novels. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Nowadays, I only review books I really like. It's cowardly, I know, but I figure it's not my job to make people… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“The truth and reality are what I always write in my books, essays, and quotes; that I may err is possible, but… — Ingrid Holm-Garibay Copy Share Image
There's a children's book by Anthony Browne called 'The Tunnel' that I've always loved. — Billy Howle Copy Share Image
Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life… — Ellen Douglas Copy Share Image
I'm very much a word-centric writer, and that comes from the literature and the reading that I did as kid and also… — Grace Potter Copy Share Image
“Thus ran his thoughts; he wanted to go to bed, but he felt loath to tear himself away from the book.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A favorite song or tune may stay on your mind for hours. A good book will stay on your mind until you… — F. Haywood Glenn Copy Share Image
