I'm such a huge fan of fan fiction, to me it's a great way for readers to become writers. It's like putting… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up. Once it's done, fortunately, it… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so. — William Targ Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Knowledge, you may get from books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it.” — Ismat Ahmed Shaikh Copy Share Image
“INDIE AUTHOR= A writer growing, learning, developing their trade-set based on skills they are acquiring along their journey. (They are not in… — Eri Nelson Copy Share Image
It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“I remember that story. You have read it four times." Samson shrugged. "Why should I stop with the first reading? Nobody says,… — Karen A. Wyle Copy Share Image
“Literary award competitions are like social media platforms, and judging panels are their users. Submitting a book to a literary award competition… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Painting is feeling, never spoil it, Face is a book, try to read it, Love is precious, b ready to sacrifice for… — Babloo Copy Share Image
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. — John Hersey Copy Share Image
“It is not what is read or what is remembered, but only what is understood, that gives power,” — George Fillmore Swain Copy Share Image
she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face. — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly---Sam Keen, Author” — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“Reading good books gives a few lessons, stable minds, inner intellects, a lesson of life, and a way ahead to fly.” — Abid Hussain Copy Share Image
“You could say we run a dating service. If you with some books that will take you on a date you will… — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
Fingerprint readers require special hardware, and a lot of people find them creepy and don't want to use them. Smart cards and… — Daniel Lyons Copy Share Image
I'm always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn't stop. — Jocko Willink Copy Share Image
I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world,… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I am the author of my own life; unfortunately I am using pen and I can not erase my mistakes nor would… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I've just finished my book, I wrote it on penguins. Come to think of it, paper would have been better. — Milton Jones Copy Share Image
I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha,… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
“An author's ultimate reward is expanding mankind's understanding of our world.” — Richard Mathews Copy Share Image
[on L. Ron Hubbard] I'm not in favor of his religion by any means. But he wrote a book called 'Battlefield Earth'… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture. — Malcolm Miller Copy Share Image
“If you have friends who say they don't read, you need new friends. That is my final answer.” — Niedria Dionne Kenny Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I'm a digital reader. When I travel abroad, I don't want to pack physical books, and I even like reading on my… — Rajeev Suri Copy Share Image
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being. — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image