A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter… — Chet Faker Copy Share Image
“Acknowledge your position as the author, and determine what the next pages of your story are going to say.” — Nate Green Copy Share Image
My idea of a night out is actually a night in - in pajamas, with a good book or playing 'Mario Kart.'… — Ronan Farrow Copy Share Image
Judging someone before you have gotten to know them is like explaining the contents of a book youve never read. — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world… — Alice Eve Copy Share Image
I really like listening to books. I listen to them at twice the speed so I can listen to more books. — Poppy Copy Share Image
“And don’t bet on hiding anything for long; as Charlene Li, author of Open Leadership, notes, “There is information leakage everywhere.” — Tasha Eurich Copy Share Image
“Just because a book is a classic doesn't mean it has anything to do with real life. Homer's ILIAD is taught at… — David Denby Copy Share Image
When people ask for book recommendations, I say this: Do some math. If you read one book every week for the rest… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Many authors write like amateur blacksmiths making their first horseshoe; the clank of the anvil, the stench of the scorched leather apron,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college, a secretarial college, an… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Rad had written a two-sentence response for his comparison/contrast between Moby Dick and The Old Man and the Sea: “The fishermen lost… — Emm Oh Copy Share Image
Have you thought of an ending?" "Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant." "Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
My office is just overflowing with books about witches and books about 17th-century animal husbandry and agricultural farm tools from the period. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College. — Samuel Parris Copy Share Image
Bond's introduction: "Bond. James Bond." Repeated in 17 subsequent Bond films. Number One in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The… — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I knew that if I was going to write a book, I was going to have to read one, too. — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written. — Danielle de Niese Copy Share Image
“It was my sister's fault. She brought...books home before I was old enough to check them out of the library myself.” — Michael Patrick Hearn Copy Share Image
“Many of the characters named in this book existed, as did the shadowy order sometimes known as the Brotherhood of St. John… — Glenn Meade Copy Share Image
In a graphic novel, you have to allow for a certain amount of freedom on the reader's part to experience it how… — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
“A visit always brings pleasure-- if not when it begins, then when it ends. (Quoted from another book)” — Emmanuel Carrère Copy Share Image
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning. — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world. — Mattie Stepanek Copy Share Image
I couldn’t remember the last time I had stayed up into the squeaky hours of the night because I couldn’t put a… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“When it came to monsters, she’d known the very best.'...this is a proper quote from the book by the way, the beginning… — Shehanne Moore Copy Share Image
Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“A life is similar to a book. Some chapters are boring,a few emotional, a handful memorable,others saddening,one or two thoughtful and many… — Elizabeth Adeniyi Copy Share Image
Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“It is just as honorable. . .to dig in the dirt as to dig into books. The mind can do its best… — William Warren Prescott Copy Share Image
“Just because you start attempting to do right, doesn’t mean people will let you forget about what you’ve done wrong…Be encouraged” — Kerry E. Wagner Copy Share Image
At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
