“Great art is in the eye of the beholder, but great football is in the record books.” — Scott Sigler Copy Share Image
“Magnus, he’d been an open book with me. There’d been no holding back, no pretending, no hesitation. He’d wanted me. Not just… — Sloane Kennedy Copy Share Image
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
“Our original idea was to write a book titled Fifty Shades of the Hunger Games, by J.K. Rowling with Stephen King: A… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Connect to the world's largest community of readers with Goodreads on Kindle, where you can see what your friends are reading, find… — Amazon Copy Share Image
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the… — Tabitha King Copy Share Image
People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Maybe, just maybe, there should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
“What the critic as a teacher of language tries to teach is not an elegant accomplishment, but the means of conscious life.… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I'm going to use… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
“According to Bishop, the author of The Big Sort, in 1976 less than 25% of Americans lived in places where the presidential… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“He just wanted to live inside a moment of that life with her forever, to pluck it like a flower and press… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“War was a central theme in maths books too. School books - because the Taliban printed books soley for boys - did… — Asne Seierstad Copy Share Image
My mother had died when I wrote my first book. I was twenty-seven, so it was right at the beginning of my… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
“I like to think that when I complete a novel I learned something along the way.” — Michael J. Kannengieser Copy Share Image
Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
“He believed books had an aura that protected him, that without one beside him he would die. He happily slept without women.… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Why are you doing this?” One of his hands caressed the books. “Because books are made to be read,” I told him.… — Katherine Allred Copy Share Image
She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
When I travel, I can leave everything at home apart from books. I curate my holiday reading rigorously and would be devastated… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Mm, Willa Cather. A brilliant author. And this is her best, hands down. It's the one she was meant to write.” — M. Pierce Copy Share Image
Never settle for being a character in someone else's story when you are meant to be the author of your own. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I've been involved in lots of comic book stuff; I've done numerous films based on comic books and TV shows. — Jeffrey Dean Morgan Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
My greatest influence has been the blues. And that's a literary influence, because I think the blues is the best literature that… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
When you write a book, people legitimise it by actually reading the book and so it's almost okay to write another one. — Eoin Macken Copy Share Image
Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars-they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours. — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for… — Nicole Anderson Copy Share Image
At 'GQ,' there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
“You are your greatest product and behind every book lies an author who wrote it.” — Geraldine Solon Copy Share Image
The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every… — Jose Emilio Pacheco Copy Share Image
