I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side. — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
I love words; I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“She stretched beneath him, bare and aching, held captive by an entirely new form of magic, one she'd thought existed only in… — Christine Warren Copy Share Image
“Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right into… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My publicist actually told me about the book. She's half-Indian, half-Dutch, and she was like, 'You've got to do this book. It's… — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
A novel is too much of a commitment. I tend to peruse Twitter - I check to see if I had any… — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you're never… — John Waters Copy Share Image
“It's not four days ago I find a bastard squatting here, asking me if I read books. Like he would jump me… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Raven-haired writer Emer Martin is giving a lunchtime reading from her fabulous new novel, Baby Zero. Emer Martin is a brilliant writer,… — Olaf Tyaransen Copy Share Image
I've read every one of Donald Goines' books. So as soon as I heard there was an opportunity for one of his… — DMX Copy Share Image
A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The war now is away back in the past, and you can tell what books cannot. When you talk, you come down… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
“There are those who cannot imagine a world without birds; there are those who cannot imagine a world without water; but in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“...we can pretend that the book in question is not Mr. West’s but mine, made mine by the madness of my reading.” — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Literature wasn't intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws. — Erin McCarthy Copy Share Image
I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps. — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
Readers regularly ask what can go wrong but almost never what could positively surprise. — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
“I know no greater bore than the man who insists on lending you a book which you do not intend to read.” — Harold Rabinowitz Copy Share Image
God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
I like detective stories and spy novels, but I also like nonfiction, and of course cookbooks. — Paul Wahlberg Copy Share Image
“Grabbed my duffel, my toothbrush, and a signed copy of my favorite book. Just the essentials.” — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
“Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“True life life at last discovered and illuminated the only life therefore really lived that life is literature.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Books are better friends than people at times. They do not threaten you, unless that feeling means you're anticipating the next event. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Move On. It's Just A Chapter In the past. But Don't Close the book, JUST THE PAGE — Ronald Dale Fuentebella Copy Share Image
You read [Bill ] Maher's book, and he didn't take Econ 101. All his arguments about gasoline, it's not that they're right… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“The beginning of a novel: start a subject, no matter where, and to have the desire to finish, start with very beautiful… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“She might be a captive, but in this room, with a book in her hand, she could be free.” — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
“We don't hold with book-reading," Mr. Wormwood said. "You can't make a living from sitting on your fanny and reading story-books.” — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions. — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
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