You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time. — William Landay Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like the smell of books, both new and old. If someone ever bottled the smell, I would be all… — Tiffany King Copy Share Image
I always tell my little sister after high school all the 'cool kids' will wanna be you, just keep your nose in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“a dozen...chocolate chip cookies...a pot of coffee, and a good book are all I will need for the rainy weekend rolling in.” — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you… — Mark Houlahan Copy Share Image
“Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas.” — Semen Frank Copy Share Image
But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“In reading, one should notice and fondle details. There is nothing wrong about the moonshine of generalization when it comes after the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“The Librarian swung on. It was slow progress, because there were things he wasn't keen on meeting. Creatures evolved to fill every… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
When I wrote the book, I thought that I was the hero of my story. And in writing it, I came to… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
In the novels I most admire, there is this sense that, within the confines of the world, the possibilities are always opening… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“Nikad nije bilo više vjerskih predavanja i vjerske literature, a naše stanje, opet, nije zadovoljavajuće. Hrđav je naš odnos prema roditeljima, mnogo… — Abdurrahman Kuduzović Copy Share Image
I earn - I'm not - I don't want to claim I'm a scholar of great stature, but I have made a… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
“We live in a primitive time—don’t we, Will?—neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I don't care if only a handful of people read my books, the stories must be told. I will never give up… — Christy Sloat Copy Share Image
I think I get from my books what other people get from family or a relationship or from prayer. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Write," he said. "I'll write to you as soon as I get there," answered Julian. "No. Not to me. Write books. Not… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Read Frank’s poem, “Advice to the Players.” It talks about all of this, about the human need to create.” — James Franco Copy Share Image
The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“Actually, it is amazing how much can be learned about people from the books they own.” — Mitch Cullin Copy Share Image
Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“Books bombarded his shoulders, his arms, his upturned face. A book lit, almost obediently, like a white pigeon, in his hands, wings… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author. — Ventseslav Konstantinov Copy Share Image
“Aliens loved cornfields. They were drawn to them like toddlers to coloring books.” — Brian Harmon Copy Share Image
“My novel is about the history of the world, told from the point of view of a column of stone.” — Kit Reed Copy Share Image
I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film. — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
“An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for ‘is a man I dreamt up’.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“Stay in your room; write your own books; because everything outside this room is a lie.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“After ten standard months I was done, acknowledging the ancient aphorism to the effect that no book or poem is ever finished,… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“A good book will keep you fascinate for days, a good book shop your whole life!” — Waterstones Copy Share Image
“Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My writing has developed drastically . The Return of the Prodigal Son is the most important thing I've done, and my most… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
