My understanding of romance novels was that it was on the beach with a glass of rose. — Jonathan Bailey Copy Share Image
reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat. — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“This book is dedicated, with love, to Bobby, who has found the only pound of pure- Faith in a Loving God.” — Hubert Selby Jr Copy Share Image
“the way I used to turn the pages of a book to find out what happens in the final chapter” — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The hero was the sort of character you could feel yourself falling in love with, no matter how much you tried to… — Heather James Copy Share Image
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Buy ammunition! Remember that a man cannot have too many books, too many wines, or too much ammunition. Our adversaries on the… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
I am opposed to textbooks... I find it hateful to give a course where I have to plough my way through chapter… — Emil Artin Copy Share Image
“Carlo Levare (ok, a little weird writing in 3rd person) writes books because talking to himself in public is “frowned upon.” Indie… — Carlo Levare Copy Share Image
But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in… — John Green Copy Share Image
“When I write, I bring joy in my readers face In my face, peace and complete happiness But hardly I give any… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“Master said the only thing more dangerous than a nigger with a gun,” he told them, “was a nigger with a book.… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
“...I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“It is common to assume that we are dealing with a highly intelligent book when we cease to understand it.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“You said that you wanted to be her reason for loving books. You said you wanted to be her reason for everything.” — Jay McLean Copy Share Image
“Sometimes life is like that, you know. It smacks us when we’re down. The brave get back up. At least, they do… — Shannon Lee Alexander Copy Share Image
When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own… — Kristy Swanson Copy Share Image
Thanks!It's not a long book but it's taken a year to write. It's fnially [read: FINALLY!!! YAYAYAYAY!] feeling ready for my editors!… — Auth Copy Share Image
That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
“The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child’s hands.… — Kenny Pieper Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“myself seemed actually to have become the subject of my book: a church, a quartet, the rivalry between François I and Charles… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again. — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
“All my days were written in Your book and planned before a single one of them began. Psalm 139:16” — S. L. Rubart Copy Share Image
A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
Do you know what writing a book is? It's sitting alone in a room for weeks without making contact with another human.… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.” — Gerald W. Haslam Copy Share Image
I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I love to read and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.… — Mary Mouser Copy Share Image
The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of… — John Bright Copy Share Image