I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop.… — Linda Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Chapter one is where you reach out your hand to the reader and say, "Come, let's have an adventure together.” — Tenaya Jayne Copy Share Image
“Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.” — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I… — Yami Gautam Copy Share Image
“What can a man read in a library of cannibals? Bloody books bound by bones in tissues’ paper.” — Stephan Attia Copy Share Image
We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Your vacation depends upon the book that tells you where to go, and it is called your cheque book. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
As Gove knows… 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is… — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“When I wrote The Betsy, I spent a lot of time in Detroit with the Ford family. The old man running the… — Harold Robbins Copy Share Image
“We have a lot of books in our house. They are our primary decorative motif-books in piles and on the coffee table,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
People who dislike Oprah's Book Club dislike it for the same reason that they dislike Barnes & Noble. The fact that the… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you want to help arm the schools, arm them with school supplies, books, therapists - things they actually need and can… — Emma Gonzalez Copy Share Image
A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound. — William Lashner Copy Share Image
whatever you do, find ways to read poerty. Eat it, drink it, enjoy it, and share it. — Eve Merriam Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
My wife and I set up the business, we were always very open about it and had a business author's name as… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
“Writing is a unique art-form. You are painting a detailed image in someone's mind, and it will be different for every single… — Giuseppe Bianco Copy Share Image
Neither my mom nor my dad ever bought me any comic books. Certainly not for Christmas. I suspect that doing so would… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“Is your book interesting?' I had already formed the intention of asking her to lend it to me some day.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I'm always reading, and you learn a lot by reading. When I was twenty-five, I read a lot, but didn't have much… — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I am the author of my life. Unfortunatley, I'm writing in pen. And I cannot erase any mistakes. — DopeyDasha Copy Share Image
“No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands... that can… — Ivan Stoikov Copy Share Image
“Once he'd been an open book and the days had been too short to hold all our words.” — Kristen Simmons Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you have to sigh for those moments you forget you are wearing your cape.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writing children's books all started out as a way for me to give back and make a difference. — Coy Bowles Copy Share Image
I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out. — Mario Cantone Copy Share Image
“Hugo headed off toward the door to leave, but the bookstore was warm and quiet, and the teetering piles of books fascinated… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
The normal reaction of a publisher when faced with an author with a bee in his bonnet is to grab the check… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Simon Critchley's 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - it's a quick thumbnail sketches of philosophers through the ages. — David Benioff Copy Share Image
Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“A sincere hug or a well-placed kiss can communicate a book of words in a single moment.” — Kim Meeder Copy Share Image
“Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.” — Michael J. Kannengieser Copy Share Image
