I don't see how you can write well if you're not reading well at the same time. I think the only risk… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers. — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That's important to me, ironing out those details of 'hey, what's my read? Where am I looking? Where are my feet? Where… — Mac Jones Copy Share Image
A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“A well-stocked, well-staffed library is like a gardener who plants books, knowledge, and dreams and grows readers, learners, and do-ers.” — Laura Purdie Salas Copy Share Image
We’re all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last,… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“What did they care if the rabbis who found them with the books of haskala, of enlightenment, called them epicureans, atheists, breakers… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“How can one who has been abandoned—truly, no one left in sight—be less alone? Before, his answer would have been 'books,' but… — A.D. Aliwat Copy Share Image
Much as I like and admire Richard Dawkins, I do think that to call a book 'The God Delusion' is very worrying… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“When I have a chapter finished, I jot down who the viewpoint characters are, what they are wearing, what happened in the… — Dean Wesley Smith Copy Share Image
“The author of this groundbreaking book was Bill Starr; and years before he penned The Strongest Shall Survive, Starr was your quintessential… — Lee Driver Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
For me, I just stuck to school. I thought you can't be bullied and dumb, so books and I will be friends. — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
Look, I like to fantasize that there's more to reality than what we have here, and that's why, from a young age,… — Don Coscarelli Copy Share Image
O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
My mother has always been an Anglophile and taught my sister and me to love British history and literature. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace. — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
Literature hasn't come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times - it's still dealing with how one resolves… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“98: I love you because I would NEVER spend three hours making this book of 100 reasons why I love you for anyone else.” — L.A. Casey Copy Share Image
“Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my ‘to-read’ list.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still… — Emily Watson Copy Share Image
“In literature there is no such thing as a pure thought; in literature, thought is always the handmaid of emotion.” — John Middleton Murry Copy Share Image
It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just… — Britt Daniel Copy Share Image
The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer. — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness. — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
“e-reader (i.e., a portable replacement for physical books), this is the go-to, standard-setting device." - Engadget” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys'… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars — Holless Wilbur Allen Copy Share Image
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Since we're going to dream anyway...DREAM BIG!" ~ Cindy Nord, Historical Romance Author” — Cindy Nord Copy Share Image
