As always, a lot of bad books will be published. Some good books will be published, and you have to seek them… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“I love to read, but I'm not a reviewer. I'll leave the reviewing to someone else. Suffice it to say, if I'm… — John Inman Copy Share Image
“In his excellent book Irresistible, Adam Alter writes about the rise of behavioral addictions in contemporary society.” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read… — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image
“If someone else has done it then I can do it too. If no one has then I can be the first.… — Soraya Copy Share Image
I don't know whether we Church members fully appreciate the Book of Mormon, one of our sacred scriptures, as we really should. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.” — Marc Levy Copy Share Image
“When you read a book, book also reads you! The book will know who you are from the sentences you underline!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for… — Polly Horvath Copy Share Image
“The 'one book' which hasn't been written yet, even then persistent a book is being written by me, and might never end!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Stop trying to be author of your romantic fate...let the universe kick in and lend a hand. Not only will you end… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that any book should be denied to the man who possesses the wisdom to understand it, Bruno, but… — S.J. Parris Copy Share Image
“what did you think you were doing, then, when you went up through one door and down through another, turning this way… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“I'm not crying out for help, but I am sharing my experience in the hopes that readers will get something out of… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
I remember the book The beautiful ones are not yet born now the beautiful ones are on BBM,facebook & twitter, nobody to… — @efiosiugbore Copy Share Image
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I used to read a lot of Isaac Asimov and Philip Dick and 'Inland Empire's' one of the earlier books I read! — Eoin Macken Copy Share Image
The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out. — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“I don't think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you're a passionate reader, AND read passionately.” — Michelle D. Kwasney Copy Share Image
Ive been reading a book called 1,000 sexual positions. Ive reached position 176 and apparently from now on Im going to need a woman. — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
Someone gave me the Love Languages book, and that has been the best book I've ever read about relationships and has helped… — Kristin Cavallari Copy Share Image
Its all your Now. Love your now. It cant always be pleasurable, but you can still appreciate the electric awareness of being… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
Ive been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction. — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
“Your don't have to burn books to destroy culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I slammed the book shut and and crowed, 'And that is why you don't kick the librarian off the investigation!” — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
It's all so beautiful . . . the spring . . . and books and music and fires. . . . Why aren't they enough? — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“When does a novel begin? The question is almost as difficult to answer as the question, when does the human embryo become… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of the series of books by Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments. I'm a fan myself, so to be… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development. — Norman Macleod Copy Share Image
