“Maybe "Bible Belt" refers not so much to the popularity of the Good Book in these parts, but to the biblical-plague level… — Paul Jury Copy Share Image
Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY) — John Clute Copy Share Image
It's fun to play somebody who has no boundaries or rules. There's no book you can read on how to play a… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head. — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Libri quosdam ad scientiam, quosdam ad insaniam deduxere. (Books have led some to knowledge and some to madness.)” — Francesco Petrarca Copy Share Image
I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Components of today include a shape asleep on the floor an erased white world the tumblers vibrating in the closet and he… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and… — Guy Browning Copy Share Image
No one ever had a better father than I did. Father was a disciplinarian, and Mother was a very loving woman who… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think, when I'm writing, I have a more clinical view than I do when I'm reading. I like pretending to be… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the… — Susan Stewart Copy Share Image
...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium. — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
“A brick could be used to stop people from reading my book. Just place the brick on the book’s cover, to discourage… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People tend to read books about a guy who goes back in time or a guy who is living under a pier. — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really. — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book. — Charles E. McKenzie Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a mystery or thriller writer, honestly. I am in awe of mystery writers and don't think… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed. — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I think shorter books are going to become more and more of the trend. So I don't think you have to write… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive… — Sophie Thompson Copy Share Image
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Anybody who wants to take a quick beach trip out there should sit down with the book. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Sometime we fail to understand.. the feelings of very close people in our life. Because a book held very nearer to eyes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The odd thing is, that I wrote The Great Spring while I had cancer and it's not about cancer. It was after… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I'm constantly trying to educate myself with new material on raising children as opposed to the rule book from 20 years ago. — Asher Keddie Copy Share Image
“That doesn't sound very reliable to me," said the druid nastily. "How can a book know what day it is? Paper can't… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
