If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
“Writing is enormously satisfying, a little difficult at times, but rewarding, especially when someone really loves the book - that is the… — A.H. Richardson Copy Share Image
Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please. — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a… — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The Vedic literatures predicted that after the advent of Lord Caitanya five hundred years ago, there would be a Golden Age of… — Mukunda Goswami Copy Share Image
“I know there are readers in the world, as well as many other good people in it, who are no readers at… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
We've had science fiction novels where China is dominant; we've had novels where India is dominant, and I suppose it's all about… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Few people read coffee-table photo books, and indeed they are not intended to be read. I find the text in these books… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book.” — A.M. Hudson Copy Share Image
I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“The mark of a good book is that you're happy to come home to it. The mark of a great book is… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
Whatever it is that you love to do, be it collect comic books or play the guitar, that you can make a… — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it. — Charles de Saint-Evremond Copy Share Image
“It plumps up your thinker and fills up your heart. And where you end up is not where you start.” — Brynne Barnes Copy Share Image
Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“When I die I hope it may be said: 'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'.” — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
“Digital publishing allows an author a new platform for which the words of one heart can be shared with all souls of… — Molly Friedenfeld Copy Share Image
Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote,… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
“I tried to close my imagination, but it stayed open like a book that has been read too often.” — Christie Watson Copy Share Image
Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you want to reduce the rats, use the cats! If you want to reduce the fools, use the books! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers). — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises… — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The first black girl book I fell in love with was most likely 'Please, Puppy, Please' by Spike Lee and Tonya Lee. — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
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