If I open a Batman book, and he doesn't look right, I can't do it. It has so much to do with… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
“I guess I have no choice But to toss all novels under the rug Nothing can compete with the poetry bug” — Maddy Kobar Copy Share Image
Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned. It is not what we intend but what… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“The glamour's off. Almost any question you ask can be answered. It's only the questions that you didn't know to ask that… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
“Torah is not just a book, not just a bunch of laws, and not just a history, but so much more. The… — Laura Weakley Copy Share Image
I really like looking at other people's book collections when I'm at someone's house. I think it is an amazing cross section… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre.… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
“Writers just play out their fantasies in their books. They are often very unstable, tricky people, Bertie. Writers are usually very bad… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“A book about courage-a long string of tiny courageous steps. It is also about hope and faith and love. It is modest,… — Alice Warrender Copy Share Image
We worked with David Thibodeau, who wrote a book about Waco, on which the series is based. He's one of the nine… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Like farts and the incorrect retellings of classic literature, racism is a lot cuter when it comes out of a little girl.” — Scaachi Koul Copy Share Image
It breaks my heart that we are always being nudged toward the most recently published books, when so many worthy books have… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
“If you think a lot, write a book, Because a gravestone does not have much space.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“A book of verses underneath the bough A flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thou Beside me singing in the… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I can't tell you how excited I was when I joined my first book club, but I can tell you how much… — Sarah Cooper Copy Share Image
read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of… — Fran Tarkenton Copy Share Image
“One must own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind and without the heart, but still with… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I'm laying down my new audio book. No writing, just spoken words, the old fashioned way. -Kenny Powers — Eastbound And Down Copy Share Image
I can definitely write a book. Growing up, I really learned that. The stuff I was reading were urban books and I… — Rod Wave Copy Share Image
What could be more boring than a novel that tells you how to think about everything that happens in it? — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957) — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I started writing books because I couldn't find the books I wanted to read on the shelf. — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
Some boys think of girls just like books..If the cover doesnt catch there eyes, they wont ever bother to read whats inside. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I struggle each day not to let the fear of the censor poison my writing. Where the censor rules, a dull sameness… — Harry Mazer Copy Share Image
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Jack reads too many books. He thinks we're going to drive all year and have great adventures.” — Steven Herrick Copy Share Image
[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image