I wanted it to be as multi-windowed as possible, so that the reader felt like they were seeing all the different ways… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“Amazon isn’t happening to the book business,” he likes to say to authors and journalists. “The future is happening to the book… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“I’ve been sifting through the layers of dusty books and faded papers. They tell a story I used to know; one that… — Kate Wolf Copy Share Image
I read the novel 'Miracle at St. Anna' when it was first released, and I loved it. — Omar Benson Miller Copy Share Image
In 2008, when I wrote Book 1 and Book 2, the head of the publishing house suggested twelve books - one each… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.” — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long,… — Ann Romney Copy Share Image
I think there seems to be a need for escapism at the moment. Maybe that's the type of world we're living in.… — Colin Morgan Copy Share Image
At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature.… — Joseph Kanon Copy Share Image
“A book of the Indians (that is, Kalîlah wa-Dimnah) teaches that a scholar’s knowledge accompanies him and provides for him wherever he… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
I love writing. When I finish a script, it's a joy to sit down and go all the way through it. It's… — John Hughes Copy Share Image
The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Publishers are born connectors; they bring like-minded people together. They are also conversationalists of the first order. They foster the interaction between… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
I got a dog-training book. It says Grendel needs mental stimulation, so I tried to train him, but I think he must… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“Everything I love: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Charlie, you know where I am, don't you? All right, Charlie, this isn't literature. This is life.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
If a novel or a story works, you don't stop thinking about it; it doesn't truly end. — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I wrote my children's book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is… — Janine Turner Copy Share Image
I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Flowers don't tell, they show. That's the way good books should be too."--Stephanie Skeem. Author of Flotsam” — Stephanie Skeem Copy Share Image
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Books are a place away from routine, a place associated with dreams and fantasies.” — The Gutenberg Elegies Copy Share Image
'Walking and Talking' is my love letter to books, '70s television, music and friendship. — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
“Libraries are place where one can find satisfaction through books by discovering more ideas” — Abid Hussain Library Officer Copy Share Image
“Wisdom or personal experience surpasses all books and the knowledge they provide.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again. — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes. — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
Incarcerated individuals want what most people want in a novel: good, honest writing and a story well told. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure. — Felix Riesenberg Copy Share Image
“Se o senhor me permite arriscar uma comparação, diria que os livros são as pautas e a conversa é o canto. -… — Anton Tchehov Copy Share Image
Indeed, I still read a fair amount of French literature and I am very attracted to the emotional depth and simplicity of… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
I'm so voracious with books, movies, TV, and I'm always interested in the way that different cultural values are presented or, in… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
