The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives. — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
“If my books can make one person smile, I am, in my opinion, a successful author." C.A. King” — C.A. King Copy Share Image
Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with… — Upamanyu Chatterjee Copy Share Image
My grandfather and mother were school teachers, so there was always some discussion around books. — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
The funniest book I've ever had read to me is 'I, Partridge.' It's a brilliantly written book, but it's the greatest audiobook… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Thank You. Life is short and TBR lists are long. I know time is precious and I thank you for spending yours… — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
“Today each of you is the object of the other's reading, each reads in the other the unwritten story. Tomorrow, Reader and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I write fiction not for my readers and not for myself. I write fiction for the sake of those odd heroic characters… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
With my first book, 'A Letter to a Young Brother,' I figured it would be my only book I was ever going… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
“Show me a believing man, and I will show you a justified man, and, withal, a man who is never out of… — Alexander Whyte Copy Share Image
No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the 1940s. It wasn't categorised much before… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I feel that what I do is a calling. I would pay to do what I do if I had to. I… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
There's no need to inundate the world with books and language. It's just too full already. There's so much rubbish hiding in… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
“Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I don't plan the books ahead of time. It's not like Harry Potter. I don't work in a straight line. I don't… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.' — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
I'm always collaborating with other writers because I don't write my own books for musicals. — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
“I don’t see books. I see doors into other worlds. Windows into minds. The life of man spinning beyond time.” — Ryan Winfield Copy Share Image
My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life. — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“But instead of thinking about my book and how to write it, as I go pacing the floor, I fall to counting… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
As long as I keep my head clear and hit the books, then God will take me to whatever heights I'm going… — Jrue Holiday Copy Share Image
“There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share… — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
I used to be very disciplined about only buying three books ahead of what I was reading, but my husband corrupted me,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Don't make a whole to-do about it. Don't get down on yourself be- cause you're not an expert rower; don't start reading… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
I'm always surprised at the negative response to the women in my books who are openly ambitious or experience aggression. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“Sometimes hanging out in pajamas with a good book sounded like a phenomenal idea.” — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Now, for my younger viewers out there, a book is something we used to have before the internet. It’s sort of a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“Finding an Agent is not a problem. Finding a publisher is not a problem. Finding readers now that's a problem.” — Roy A Higgins Copy Share Image
Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've read a lot of Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Glue - he's written some beauties. — Andrew Flintoff Copy Share Image
Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
