The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“You have no ideas about what you can find in books these days, I’m telling you.” — Linda Hamonou Copy Share Image
My readers and I, we have the same taste, and it's awesome. They'll tell me about stuff that I haven't heard of. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
While the spoken word can travel faster, you cant take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
“There is no friend so faithful as a good book. There is no worse robber than a bad book.” — Italian proverb Copy Share Image
I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“...I do write books that are female oriented. In my books, the female characters are always searching for something and they often… — Shireen Dodson Copy Share Image
It's that time of the year... No, not winter. It's the time for exams, and in order to pass I have to… — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
“Every morning I watched the sun rise and read a highly religious little meditation book and tried having a conversation with God.… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
You don't market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It's a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I take it that a monograph of this sort belongs to the ephemera literature of science. The studied care which is warranted… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Physical books are still my favorite, but I own an e-book reader. They're convenient for travel. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Lately she’d been listening to books on tapes, fat womanly novels as she thought of them. Maeve Binchy, Gail Godwin, Marian Keyes.… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“All the world's a stage, Timmy Quinn, but it's not the only one…" The Turtle Boy (The Timmy Quinn Series (Book One)” — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other… — Caroline Gordon Copy Share Image
“Instead of a blank canvas, school hands kids a coloring book and tells them to stay within the lines.4 What” — Tim Urban Copy Share Image
“I bet you a million dollars there are less than five books in this whole house. What kind of life can you… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I am so fortunate to have a mom who shared with me her love for books and helped me, from my earliest… — Robin Lopez Copy Share Image
I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists. — Jacqueline Susann Copy Share Image
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“What is writing? It’s me, the author, taking the state inside my mind and, via the gift of language, grafting it onto… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Sometimes the best books are the ones no-one has heard of and you have to dig deep to find — Crystal D. Spears Copy Share Image
I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same… — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
“Books are a way of saying: This room seems to have more than its fair share of bozos in it.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The apologist can ask what literature and film reveal about the inchoate theological stirrings of our times.” — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
