[Lincoln in the Bardo] is not a long book. And that meant I could obsess over it and live in it both… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I want to inspire through example. I hope my books motivate others to open doors and windows that will help them to… — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something,… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist and science writer. I wrote a book about human impacts on marine mammals caused by agricultural drainage of nutrients… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
“He's not from here, that's the thing," Cub said. "Just because he's the outsider, he has no say? Should we not read… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He felt like a character in a book. He thought of Mary Lennox as she discovered her secret garden. The blackberry bushes… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“But as I sat in that bed, the book in my hands, the city outside silent, I had reason to feel as… — Ray Russell Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
“Here stand my books, line upon line They reach the roof, and row by row, They speak of faded tastes of mine,… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of people like me, people who need books the way they need air.” — Richard Marek Copy Share Image
You have in you a Thousand times More than is in all books.Never lose Faith in Yourself,You can do anything in this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Books, including those written by famous authors, may sit unread on forgotten shelves, attracting dust rather than readers’ attention.” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
How in the name of Merlin's pants have you managed to get your hands on those Horcrux books? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I want to buy me a hat with a golden feather & a book with the confessions of God in it” — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating. — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I got expelled from the public library for putting all the 'Women's Rights' books in the fiction section. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am quite happy for people to disagree with me on a book. If I say it is a 5 star read… — Michael Edwards Copy Share Image
“I haven't told why I wrote the book, but I haven't told you why I sneeze, either. A book is a sneeze.” — E.B. White Copy Share Image
I wish you could read people's feelings as easily as you can read a book. then you know whether your wasting your… — Sarah Moores Copy Share Image
I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature, — John Berryman Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Let none turn over books or scan the stars in quest of God who see Him not in man. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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