“The poem was called “Goblin Market,” and the book whose proof pages were on the desk was titled Goblin Market and Other… — Tim Powers Copy Share Image
Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through. — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Really interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don't fall asleep. — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now… — Eli Wallach Copy Share Image
I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
I've read Flowers in the Attic and The Other Side of Midnight and Go Ask Alice and I don't want to read… — Rebecca Godfrey Copy Share Image
Picture books are more difficult for me because it is telling a huge story in the least amount of words. — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
“Remember when you first started your business? The enthusiasm you had? It's my job as the author of this book to restore… — Chris C. Ducker Copy Share Image
The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“The author would also like to acknowledge makers of comic book villains and superheroes, those who invented, or at least popularized, the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“And more even than the painter, the writer, in order to achieve volume and substance, in order to attain to generality and,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I think most writers … write about episodes meaningful to them in terms of their own imaginations. Now that would include a… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
What is the task of the translator? I think the task depends on the book and on the translator. — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead… — George Noory Copy Share Image
The life of an open book, is the biggest advantage to keep you feel ashamed remembering that could not. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“The novel is a medium of profoundly serious investigation into the human case.” — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. — George Johnson Copy Share Image
I didn't even realize this at first, but there's almost no central character in any of my 24 books who doesn't have… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I love books with titles like, 'How Do You Spank a Porcupine?,' 'Arnie, the Darling Starling,' or 'The Bat in My Pocket.' — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
“Every so often an author comes along and changes the world. I am not that author!” — Rachel Rueben Copy Share Image
A 2 minutes of discussing with a wise man are much better than six mounths of reading books! — Moulay Abdallah Boulaassair Copy Share Image
“Brian: I love books Prof. Morrison: The contents of books, or just owning a whole load of books?” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
A woman goes to a palm reader and hears that her husband will die a violent death. She asks, Will I be… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
I used to read comics as a kid, and now I'm reading them for research. It's great fun. It's not bad homework. — David Harewood Copy Share Image
“The story of your life has many chapters. One bad chapter doesn't mean it's the end of the book.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a reader, sometimes, I just want to not think. You know, I want to read something that is purely enjoyable: that… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“Don't just read, insert yourself into the story and experience the journey as if you were written into it! – Lynn Veevers” — Lynn Veevers Copy Share Image
I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
