I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Promoting his new book, President Bush visited the headquarters of Facebook. Unfortunately, he spent the whole visit on Farmville, clearing brush. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
I urge aspiring writers to write three full-length novels before contemplating publication. — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
We had 1 book, the phone book, I've read it, it wasn't a great read, lots of characters, and on the end… — Stephen K. Amos Copy Share Image
I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced –… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you read one book you are a clone. If you read two books you are confused. If you read ten books… — Tim Keller Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated, obsessed even, with books and TV shows about unsolved murders, cold cases, forensic science, mysteries, and so on.… — Scott Heim Copy Share Image
The book has very specific qualities. Let's say in 2300 they discover the physical book, after having lived with the digital book… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
“• Was there a handbook that could tell me what to do next? There were thousands of books that taught parenting; I… — S.E. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Lewis closes his book, The Abolition of Man, with these prophetic words: “You cannot go on ‘explaining away’ for ever: you will… — Louis A. Markos Copy Share Image
“...and he would have also to endure his book like a form of fatigue, to accept it like a discipline, build it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“If you judge me negatively, as you would a book by it's cover, you'd be surprised by what you see written on… — Rick Ferreira Copy Share Image
“one begins to read between the pages of a look, the shape of sleepy music and suddenly you're hooked ...” — lyric from a Jefferson Airplane song Copy Share Image
Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Candide is one of those books I read when I was young and that I come back to regularly. — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences. — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the reader doesn't care or relate to the characters, all that visual spectacle is pretty but feels empty. — Cliff Chiang Copy Share Image
“She saw now that she could not tell him about the books she had loved any more than she could make him… — Elizabeth George Speare Copy Share Image
“She had been seized with a sudden existential horror. The house had white carpets and white furniture and, most significantly, no books.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
They belong to their readers now, which is a great thing–because the books are more powerful in the hands of my readers… — John Green Copy Share Image
How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a… — John Wain Copy Share Image
You know it's a great story when you identify with the main character to the point that you forget you're a spectator… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
Bringing Mid-World to a new readership felt like a big responsibility, but I'm so glad that readers have enjoyed the story. That… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
“At least Anne Frank,” Comrade Snarky said, “never had to tour with her book . . .” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe; I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Turning the pages of a favourite book creates a very special bond with our grandchildren, but it's not just an indulgent pleasure. — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Copy Share Image
Maybe our lives are like imperfect novel. Novels that would get very mixed reviews. — MEG WOLITZER Copy Share Image
“Commit yourself to the serious reading of books, and your life will be enlightened.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
