“The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Try reading the Book of Mormon because you want to, not because you have to. Discover for yourself that it is true. — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal. — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I was not trying to write some sort of serious meditation on war and peace. 'The Grace of Kings' is meant to… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
A shame really, because putting the right book in the right kid’s hands is kind of like giving that kid superpowers. — Cecil Castellucci Copy Share Image
A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I was told at first that being different was a bad thing. Everywhere I went, it was just, 'You're too different'... And… — Lindsey Stirling Copy Share Image
I believe that a good children's book should appeal to all people who have not completely lost their original joy and wonder… — Leo Lionni Copy Share Image
I think fatalism and redemption are themes that help a reader organize and eventually "own" a story or character. Writing them, I… — Linden MacIntyre Copy Share Image
'Marley Dias Gets It Done - And So Can You' is a book about how girls who are 10 and up -… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
I'm a fictional monogamist - I can only work on one thing at a time - but each novel starts growing in… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps… — John Green Copy Share Image
“We might think we know how we are being affected by the media—a book, a movie, a TV series. Ironically, this so-called… — Anthony Gierzynski Copy Share Image
I have become so used to having people say, 'We loved your movie' instead of 'We read your book' that now I… — Charles R. Jackson Copy Share Image
“Art books are filled with interesting images. And that’s cool and all, but I look more for the nudes.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
People say Hey, I'm an open book. But could there be another cover over that title? — Alexandra Copy Share Image
“Proposed Roads to Freedom In this book Russell weighs the respective advantages and disadvantages of Socialism, Marxism and Syndicalism.” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied. — Monica Lewinsky Copy Share Image
I don't plan the books ahead of time. It's not like Harry Potter. I don't work in a straight line. I don't… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.' — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
“I don’t see books. I see doors into other worlds. Windows into minds. The life of man spinning beyond time.” — Ryan Winfield Copy Share Image
I'm always collaborating with other writers because I don't write my own books for musicals. — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life. — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“But instead of thinking about my book and how to write it, as I go pacing the floor, I fall to counting… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
As long as I keep my head clear and hit the books, then God will take me to whatever heights I'm going… — Jrue Holiday Copy Share Image
I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
“There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share… — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
I used to be very disciplined about only buying three books ahead of what I was reading, but my husband corrupted me,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Don't make a whole to-do about it. Don't get down on yourself be- cause you're not an expert rower; don't start reading… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Sometimes hanging out in pajamas with a good book sounded like a phenomenal idea.” — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
I'm always surprised at the negative response to the women in my books who are openly ambitious or experience aggression. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
Now, for my younger viewers out there, a book is something we used to have before the internet. It’s sort of a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
