It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
When you feel your book is the height of irrelevance you can return to the excitement of the daily news. — Deborah Solomon Copy Share Image
I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very… — Pink Copy Share Image
What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images,… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next… — Tatyana Tolstaya Copy Share Image
If you're a particular kind of kid who hasn't found your tribe, which most of us don't until later, that's what books… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“Because reading is a selfish activity, writing must be unselfish, a gift to the reader.” — Oscar Patton Copy Share Image
“As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
There's this quote by a writer, Emil Cioran, he's a Romanian writer. He says that you should only put things in books… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
“Buying books in that 20 year period of my life in which the internet pervaded much of what I did, was quick… — Mark Boyle Copy Share Image
“In an enchanting encounter with the myriad books that I met in a cosy book shop today, I couldn't help but get… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I've always relied on producing more material than I need. With each of my published novels I've written around four times the… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
If I'm not writing a book, I'm doing promotion for a book. One thing I love to do is go off with… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
“See what happens to the souls and outcome of a molesting priest, suicide bomber, deadly gang leader, rapist serial killer in the… — William Depaol Copy Share Image
To me the question is always this: if a ray of light came out of the sky and said, "Your next book… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute. — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
“So I be written in the Book of Love, I have no care about that book above; Erase my name, or write… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Writing keeps the mind sharp and gives me the opportunity to exercise my imagination to engage the reader,” — Ruth Ford Elward Copy Share Image
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
My books flow. People say they pick them up and they can't put them down. It's because when I'm writing them I… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
I think that successful writers somehow capture truths that resonate with readers. — Steven Gundry Copy Share Image
Many read self help books I often wonder if they are just searching for one better than they can write themselves? — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“I hate it when I have to wait the next book in a series to come out. Don't you hate it when… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
You know, I've never been a comic book person, just because that's not my gig and I don't have a television. — Allison Mack Copy Share Image
“Students who do not develop reading fluency, regardless of how bright they are, are likely to remain poor readers throughout their lives.” — 2000 National Reading Panel Copy Share Image
It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share Image
With contemporary writers, I often buy books and then realise I've bought them before. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
One of my favorite comic books of all-time is the graphic novel 'God Loves, Man Kills.' — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
Book marketing is a skill: it takes knowledge, effort, and persistence to really be successful. — Heather Hart Copy Share Image
“Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed…” — Ammon Shea Copy Share Image
It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late. — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
“Books educate and inspire, and they soothe souls -- like comfort food without the calories.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“One day I looked at Gat, lying in the Clairmont hammock with a book, and he seemed, well, like he was mine.… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image