An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works. — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
“What are your favorite books? What do you dream about? Whom do you love?” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
“I never have any clue what my next book is going to be about, when the time comes, the book starts pouring… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories. — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread.” — Ellen Rose Copy Share Image
When you have a book out, it's like a period of protracted or concentrated megalomania, and it's really not normal or good… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“I am not a fiction reader. If I already do, I read fiction always more like the illustration of a philosophical-political thesis… — Louis Tobback Copy Share Image
The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Writing a novel was like I had some Play-Doh to work with and could just keep working with it - doing a… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Photographs have always been the tar baby of censors and obscenity laws. Literature can certainly (if it's any good) conjure up the… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence.… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“He recognized her deft hand and eye for detail immediately. He flipped through the pages, past vignettes of the dairymaid and her… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
I think that it's important for people to read philosophy and literature is not because I think everyone should be a well-rounded… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
