Although I did admire David Foster Wallace's final unfinished novel about boredom, I'm no DFW, and I want my books to be… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your pleasure and… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God. — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I always wanted to write a book, but it looked really hard: how did you get all the lines to come out… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers. — Christian Bauman Copy Share Image
“Events like this don't give me the sense of oneness others seem to enjoy; it's always been private occasions that make me… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Courage is where you find it. Bravery that comes from a bottle-- or from book or from a sermon-- lacks the full… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The power of a label and radio and a booking agency and all that - you never know until you experience it… — Brett Young Copy Share Image
“I found that I could not contemplate an adult life in which books were not dominant. I wanted to live and work… — Clifford Currie Librarian of the Ashmolean Library Oxford Copy Share Image
Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“Disbelievers can be good, solid people who love their spouse and children and live ethical, productive, meaningful lives. At the same time,… — Patrick Q. Mason Copy Share Image
“My dad loved the shit out of her and hardly ever knew what to say to her and she loved the shit… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I've got lots of favourite authors, but I would say Nicci French because I look more forward to reading her next new… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“The characters' lives were so much more interesting than the lonely hearbeat of my own” — Ruth Sepetys Copy Share Image
I was in three of the Harry Potter films without reading one of those book, quite thankfully. — Tom Felton Copy Share Image
I don't know why records are treated different than books. I don't know why an Eminem record is different than a Stephen… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
“I do wonder why women are always hemorrhaging in American literature. -Pat Peoples” — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to… — Allan Sherman Copy Share Image
The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
If we lose our phones, we lose our phone books. You don't memorize numbers anymore. — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Relationship is like a Book, It may take Few Seconds to burn but years to write. Write it Carefully & Never let… — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books. — Richard Allington Copy Share Image
When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier,… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“He likes to pretend he lives inside the comic books. I guess a fake life inside a cartoon is a lot better… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
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