You ignorant little rodent! This isn't just an old book. This is the book of Everafter." "Sorry, I haven't read it. I'm… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed." — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
There is nothing that's been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn't been either illuminating surroundings or defining a… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
“...what distinguishes pulp fiction from great literature is how emphatically the work challenges us to interpret it.” — Bruce Meyer Copy Share Image
I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you. — Alex Winter Copy Share Image
Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I read the paper every day. There are certain subjects that will catch my attention. I have an entire file of articles.… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“It turned out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I've found that in an adult reference book, if it's not a subject I'm interested in, I just can't get into it.… — James Holzhauer Copy Share Image
Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea, said Japhy. Remember that book I told you about the first sip is joy,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Compton Gage, a Spiritual breed faction who seeks to restore early days of glory through Spiritual Warfare, a holy war directed against… — Compton Gage Copy Share Image
The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
I have been active as a writer and journalist for nearly forty years. But the number of great reporters I have run… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to… — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
“He that reads, be it on yon Kindle or on yon book made from pulp, is he who shall not be called… — Lane Smith Copy Share Image
“In books, often the bad guys have a story too, and sometimes it is just as tragic as the hero’s.” — Jennifer Megan Varnadore Copy Share Image
When you're in a play, 50 percent is the genius of the actor, 50 percent is the genius of the author. When… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“But Toulmin and Goodfield's Fabric of the Heavens (1962.), an old book recently reprinted, is my favorite.” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
I do read, but not as much as I'd like to. I take five books at once and just scan through them. — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“If the word 'recharge' only applies to your cell phone, you need this book more than you know, believe me!” — Chris C. Ducker Copy Share Image
“The book is open, spine cracked, abused in a way no one with respect for paper should ever do.” — Erika Swyler Copy Share Image
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I'm generalizing wildly, but academic books find safety in explanations that reduce the chaos of social life. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I tend to start books with a very broad outline, but I always leave room for happy accidents. With 'The Passenger,' there… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I guess from my perspective being a female athlete as well, there's probably not a huge amount of female athlete books out… — Ellyse Perry Copy Share Image
When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Look. All books are weird when you think about it… It goes without saying that real life is also weird. — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
“It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live us many more… — S.I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
“It’s a book which, no matter how many readers it will ever have, will never have enough.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die! — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“The latter's boast that he had never read a book for pleasure in his life did not predispose me in his favour.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
