Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The great actors of history cannot be neatly tucked between the covers of a book and filed away like so many pressed… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“One habit: choosing a book and starting each day with a dedicated time of reading and gazing, becoming an apprentice to a… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on. — Richard Eder Copy Share Image
I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't settle. Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“She nodded her head in approval and hesitantly shut the book, breathing a reader’s sigh. That wonderful inhale/exhale reaction one does after… — Eric Arvin Copy Share Image
I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
“It is wrong, then, to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences (like the meeting of Anna, Vronsky, the railway… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“There's a Good Book about goodness and how to be good and so forth, but there's no Evil Book about how to… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media.… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“Ask a book publisher how many copies a book has sold, and he or she, presuming you’re not the author, will probably… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“Yet historians still start their books with a ritual lament about 'the sources' and their inadequacy. The lament is not entirely insincere… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
“A book can be a time machine, the best travel agency, a history teacher, a friend you cried and laughed with; giving,… — Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris Copy Share Image
“READING A GOOD BOOK IS LIKE LIVING ANOTHER LIFE. THE BEST PART IS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIKE IT.” — Phillip Knight Copy Share Image
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
My most fertile reading time is when I have just finished a project and haven't started another. I binge-read and surf around… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
My mother has always been an Anglophile and taught my sister and me to love British history and literature. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace. — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
Literature hasn't come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times - it's still dealing with how one resolves… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“98: I love you because I would NEVER spend three hours making this book of 100 reasons why I love you for anyone else.” — L.A. Casey Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my ‘to-read’ list.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still… — Emily Watson Copy Share Image
“In literature there is no such thing as a pure thought; in literature, thought is always the handmaid of emotion.” — John Middleton Murry Copy Share Image
It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer. — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just… — Britt Daniel Copy Share Image
The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness. — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
“e-reader (i.e., a portable replacement for physical books), this is the go-to, standard-setting device." - Engadget” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys'… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars — Holless Wilbur Allen Copy Share Image
