“as a child there was either books or pain. i chose books. -how i became a writer” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“I write, so that everyone else, can live. The Affidavit of Niedria Dionne Kenny” — Niedria Dionne Kenny Copy Share Image
A person could change there Profile on face book and put up a different photo, but they still the same person !… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature. — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The uncanny is not a literary genre. But nor is it a non-literary genre. It overflows the very institution of literature. It… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
I don't believe that murders can be "solved." I think that this is the big lie of the mystery novel, that you… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“Reading a book was a meditative act, but it didn’t involve a clearing of the mind. It involved a filling, or replenishing,… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
If you talk about genres - I don't care if you're talking about war, Westerns, science fiction, horror, fantasy, humor, romance -… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
Steve McClellan has drawn on an insider's lifetime view of how Wall Street really works to produce a practical and entertaining book… — Charles O. Rossotti Copy Share Image
As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also… — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
I have an ancient, insanely detailed book by Sir Henry Cotton. It's from a different era, yet it teaches all the same… — Paul Casey Copy Share Image
I think Ruin and Rising' is the best written of the three and the most structurally sound, but each book means something… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“Author describes auto CEO's decisions to drive rather than fly to Washington as "showy penitence".” — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living. — Nancy Spain Copy Share Image
The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the… — Sam Raimi Copy Share Image
“Only a reader can understand how a book with 100 pages can be too long and one with 1000 pages can be too short.” — Sofija Copy Share Image
“...I want to read what you're thinking. I'm pretty sure it's not about housekeeping.” — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones'… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“You have to read a book at the right time for you, and I am sure this cannot be insisted on too… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction. — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Brendan: "You can't find out everything from books, you know." Aidan: "I think I read that once.” — The Secret of Kells Copy Share Image
The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone. — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message. — Les Parrott Copy Share Image
A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter… — Chet Faker Copy Share Image
