When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I like to write books that touch my heart. I want to entertain, and I love to entertain myself. — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
“So the books are waiting. Of this you may be confident: they'll be ready when the whim strikes you.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
There is no end to the promotion. There is no end to the possibilities. You can continue to promote a book for… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
To go in the record books as British champion is something else and a step towards being top of the division. — Daniel Dubois Copy Share Image
When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“(from chapter 29, "Write In a Book What You See") "heuristic writing - writing to explore and discover what I didn't know.… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I had read history too closely, read of Caesar and the Roman Empire. I had not noticed that in the books there… — Erik Christian Haugaard Copy Share Image
I'm never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Prophetic preaching and writing certainly does not follow the patterns of Aristotelian rectilinear logic so fundamental to our discourse in the Western… — Peter J. Gentry Stephen J Wellum Copy Share Image
The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“No one in the family has ever really gotten over Bob’s death. We talk of him daily, recounting stories and imagining what… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
We all hope that TV will bring something added to the book - not just an audience - it will bring an… — Gerald Seymour Copy Share Image
“RUNT is my FAVORITE book.It starts out small.Then,it gets exciting in the middle.In the end it settled.” — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books. — Travis Barker Copy Share Image
One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“One sheds one’s sicknesses in books — repeats and presents again one’s emotions, to be master of them.’ DH Lawrence (The Letters… — Ella Berthoud Copy Share Image
We will forever be at the bottom if we are not educated of how the world works. Expand your mind, open a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I look at books as being a form of activism. Sometimes they'll show us a side of the world that we might… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too! — Gladys Taber Copy Share Image
“Being human makes us one. Be uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins” — Nancy S. Mure Copy Share Image
When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history. — Dave Foley Copy Share Image
I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room. — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
“It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic. — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Bad criticism has followed things like comic books or TV, and they put down a medium. A medium cannot be inherently good… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
You don't read many scripts, especially for crime dramas, that feature a strong woman as the central character. — Jodie Whittaker Copy Share Image
“Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.” — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“When i discovered how precious a book was, i burn a candle on a book every night.” — Oladeji jeremy Copy Share Image
Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
