“romance authors like Catherine Coulter, Brenda Joyce, Candice Proctor, Bertrice Small, Diana Gabaldon, and Jade Lee.” — Ellery Adams Copy Share Image
Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself. — William Jones Copy Share Image
Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied. — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers. — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Fills the heart with its unforgettable characters and small-town charm. A feel-good read as welcome as a favorite friend! — Christie Ridgway Copy Share Image
There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born. — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“WHEN YOU'RE READING YOU SHOULD PRETEND YOU'RE REALLY THERE BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE THE BOOK MOR INTERESTING!” — Mary Downing Hahn Copy Share Image
“What should we read next?” Bernadette asked. “Pride and Prejudice is my favorite. So let’s do that,” Sylvia said. Are you sure,… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“NOTHING I would like to write one of those sophisticated stories in which even though nothing much happens there’s lots to write… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
He [Shakespeare] was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul . .… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Only think about the people you enjoy. Only read the books you enjoy, that make you happy to be human. Only go… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols. The reader reads into them something worse than what you normally would have. They… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't care where I live, so long as there's a roof to keep the rain off my books, and high-speed Internet… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature. — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance. — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I wasn't brave enough to read the R. L. Stine book series when I was younger. But my brother read as many… — Emily Osment Copy Share Image
As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If I use the word 'khichdi' in my novel, I don't have to get into the trouble of explaining that it is… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I just wanna be the reader, the liker or the commenter now. No more status updates... — Sim Copy Share Image
There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas. — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
It's not always the style of tattooing but the rather the subject matter that drives me. I love tattooing anything from mythology… — William Webb Copy Share Image
If a reader likes a particular author, they keep reading all his books, and if the supply is not kept up, then… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I can hardly keep wondering at my own folly in thinking it worthwhile to leave my books and garden, even for one… — William Wyndam Grenville Copy Share Image
We've all been children, we all know a parent or parent-figure. This makes us all potential writers of children's books. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score. — Rocco DiSpirito Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
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