With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
“I like to be around all these books. It’s like having a million friends, wrapped in paper and scrawled in ink.” — Melissa Grey Copy Share Image
'Scar Tissue' is the only book I've ever written when I've felt completely toxic, ill. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this… — Charles R. Schwab Copy Share Image
“Make sure he's worth it. She had thought it so many times it had become a part of her. Like her tongue… — Colleen McCarty Copy Share Image
Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night. — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
“Literature had taken possession even of her memories. She was matching him, presumably, with certain characters in the old novels...” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
The challenge is the same whether or not I'm collaborating: to empathize with your reader and to tell a story that will… — John Green Copy Share Image
A novel is a relationship, you know? When you read a book, the writer has done half the work, and you're doing… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
“Back then I didn't know that Ior anyonecould make a life out of boyfriends and literature. As far as I could see,… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I was given some Harry Potter books by a young friend. I wanted to know why young people liked it so much.… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I love comic books. I was weaned on them, so it's not like it's a stretch for me, but I have other… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
“The “A” List Series Book 1: All The Pretty Lights Book 2: The Harder They Fall” — Tara Oakes Copy Share Image
A wonderful book . . . Full of sadness, hope, and ultimately love. I found it very moving. — Esther Freud Copy Share Image
I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty… — Kate Seredy Copy Share Image
“I take it as an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
My grandfather bought me my first Marvel comic book when I was six years old, and since then, it has been an… — Stefan Kapicic Copy Share Image
I will have an endless invisible night and read all those books and understand all until I am a liquid chromium cascade… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I know books, and I know how to string words together—it doesn’t mean I know how to speak about the things that… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
College applications are such a huge part of senior year, yet often times you never see characters in books actually do work. — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
“Your Kindle Paperwhite includes Time to Read, a feature that helps you know how long it will take to finish a chapter… — Amazon Copy Share Image
Why does any novelist keep writing long after they've made money? Because they've failed to write the perfect novel. — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Life is like a book, you'll never know what chapter two is all about because all you keep doing is re-reading chapter… — Chee Vai Tang Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems. — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that… — June Squibb Copy Share Image
I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“Perhaps one of my favorite things about travelling is getting to mark and observe other readers.” — Rachel Heffington Copy Share Image
“every time a reader leaves a book review, a crippled monkey gets a free banana. I” — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In law school, we studied the famous book 'Getting to Yes,' co-written by the head of the Harvard Law School Negotiation Project. — Erin O'Toole Copy Share Image
My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there. — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
“That's great, but what book should I read next? What book would be a great companion” — Jason Cannon Copy Share Image
When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
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