My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
“Nobody reads poetry anymore So who the hell are you I see bent over this book?” — Aleksandar Ristovic Copy Share Image
It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Christ didn't leave us a book of instructions; He left us a body, a family - a Church. If it were perfectly… — Francis George Copy Share Image
Usually, when somebody really hates your book, they're not going to waste time on it, telling you what you need to work… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I'm not a nerd, don't plan to be a nerd and read books - which I can't do at all. — Virat Kohli Copy Share Image
“It’s ironic that they swear to tell the truth on a book brimming with so many fictions, myths and errors.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our… — Francoise Hardy Copy Share Image
I read the 'Twilight' books before the movie and the whole craze happened. And then I loved it. I was in love… — Nina Dobrev Copy Share Image
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I knew what I wanted to do when I set out. I knew that I wanted to write a book that told… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
“And this note was a jittery time bomb, ticking beneath my normal life, in my pocket all day firecely reread, in my… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
When I went through the Simpson case, I was a cop. Then I was a good cop. Then I was a bad… — Mark Fuhrman Copy Share Image
Each young reader has to fashion an entirely new 'reading circuit' afresh every time. There is no one neat circuit just waiting… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
“Should you care to write (and only the saints know why you should) you must needs have knowledge and art and magic… — Kahil Gibran Copy Share Image
There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
If you don't read he newspaper you are uninformed. If you read to you are misinform — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time. — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
“Thus the fundamental form-determining intention of the novel is objectivised as the psychology of the novel's heroes: they are seekers.” — Georg Lukacs Copy Share Image
The Bookshop has a thousand books, All colors, hues, and tinges, And every cover is a door That turns on magic hinges. — Nancy Byrd Turner Copy Share Image
There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books. — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Susan had decided to sit by the pool at the hotel with a copy of a book by Alice Miller called The… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot. — John Green Copy Share Image
Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
When I read 'Watchmen,' it changed my view of so many things. It was the first time I'd read a graphic novel… — Joel Silver Copy Share Image
“It's funny how fast a book goes, but how slow the wait appears. the book may end, but the mind still thinks...waiting… — Nandanie Phalgoo Copy Share Image
Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
“Oh, I could never go back to that work, it's so dreary and the last thing the world needs is another coffee… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
Humor is necessary - it allows the reader to come up for air before dunking them under again. I need humor and… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Relationships are like book chapters, the previous ones are to learn and build on in order to fully appreciate what is in… — Allen Dominique Copy Share Image
The only reason anybody bought your book in the first place is because they were hoping you would DIE at the end… — Chris Jericho Copy Share Image
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books,… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket. — Adrian McKinty Copy Share Image
You can read about yourself but what's important is how you feel about yourself. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping. — Dean Young Copy Share Image
“It is a still stranger thing that there is nothing so delightful in the world as telling stories. It is far pleasanter… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If a kid is reading a book about someone who looks like them but doesn't talk like them, we stunt their growth… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating. — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.' — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
