I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea… — Aaron Stanford Copy Share Image
I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That's the difference between even the best video game and what's going on in books. Video games can inspire a reaction, but… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
“You should be out stirring up trouble with your friends, not bothering with all them books you read. You know it's them… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
I'd love to do a book with scratch n' sniff pages and pieces of string and plastic attached to the pages, you… — Lisa Hanawalt Copy Share Image
Being lost in books has to be one of the best feelings it's like you can escape reality and live in your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This status is so good you will read it twice this status is so good you just read it twice. — Green Monk Copy Share Image
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can… — Miranda Otto Copy Share Image
The only books I give up on are texts where the writer's attention is concentrated so heavily on narrative questions that his… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“nothing in the air but clouds. nothing in the air but rain. each man’s life too short to find meaning and all… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“We talked of love, and all we said would fill a book thicker than this. Yet all we said was only this:… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Salman Rushdie said, "A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your… — Veronica Bale Copy Share Image
Although the point of blogging is that it doesn't pay, I often steal from my blog for paid publication. I've based several… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
As long as they're making beloved books into movies, people are going to be like, 'That's not my mental image of them.'… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Everything that I write comes when it wants to, out of its own need and it dictates its form. I don't say,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts,… — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers. — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard. — Bobby Ghosh Copy Share Image
“How can we have revival when we value a book the early Church didn’t have over the Holy Spirit they did have?” — Kris Vallotton Copy Share Image
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on. — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
“Today she felt especially comforted by the books that climbed the walls. They were a reminder that any knowledge she desired was… — Liv Constantine Copy Share Image
The Bible:The more you read it,the more you love it,the more you love it,the more you read it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of books about thin, attractive people having thin, attractive people's problems. I'm better set up to… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Leaving the page of the book carelessly open, something unsaid, the phone off the hook and the love, whatever it was,an infection. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden. — Marie de Gournay Copy Share Image
“Maybe some people were destined to be alone. But, I reminded myself, you're never alone if you read.” — Rebecca Raisin Copy Share Image
The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you see the newspaper and you read something I said, you say, 'Oh, I can't believe he said that.' — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar. — Gabriel Ba Copy Share Image
In fact, with each of my novels I have been surprised by something that happens that I had not thought of beforehand. — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
