My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“Whether three daisies or a million, a rose among them is still a rose and the daisies will always pale in its… — Christi Anna Copy Share Image
To move up to hardcover is a way of getting more attention for my books. It means a lot to me: It… — Karen Robards Copy Share Image
“The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“The length of novels, poems and stories, is measured by the number of missing words; a thousand pages become one, one becomes… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
It's good to try stuff. I wrote a book that I threw away, and I think I just wrote it so I… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I challenge those who are in business and other professions to see that there are copies of the Book of Mormon in… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
For me, social media isn't just about connecting with friends and sharing photos; it's a bigger, more tangled web that's led me… — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
“I believe it IS a vice, almost, to read such a book as the ‘Letters,’” said Mrs. Touchett. “It’s the woman’s soul,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“I have some books if you need something to read,” I tell him, hesitation I have never before felt obvious in my… — Lindy Zart Copy Share Image
You may be somebody who writes best for a small press that doesn't pay very well, but you might have a fascinating… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right… — Frank Serafini Copy Share Image
“I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.” — Pushpa Rana Copy Share Image
“Fall asleep reading a good book and you enter a world of dreams; fall asleep in a film and you miss the… — Stephen Amidon Copy Share Image
I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
You're meant to think somehow that literature, in espousing eternal values, is kind of normal and balanced and reasonable. When it fact… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place. — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
My first novel, 'When You Were Mine,' was a very, very personal story and drew a lot on the people in my… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
“I am writing a book entitled "Conquest." Please be ready. It is a book children should red.” — Charles Keith Hardman Copy Share Image
Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Those smutty books sell because women wish their husbands had half the balls the men in those books do. — Tara Brown Copy Share Image
Everything I read about me is what I say. The way I've come across is exactly who I am. So far, they… — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
“we should not judge our books by their covers, and that some books exist between covers that are perfectly people-shaped.)” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books. — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“A book may be not just what it says in the text, but the background beneath it.” — Angelina Hu Copy Share Image
I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand As is a man were author of himself And knew no… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I don't have time to read books. I've read my share of books throughout my life, and I will continue to do… — Stephen A. Smith Copy Share Image
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
I prefer reading e-books on a high resolution LCD screen - like the iPod Touch's - although the pixel density could and… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Honesty is first chapter in the book of character.Being honest to self is the most cherished blessing. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“As I pedal down the street ... the city blocks peel away like pages in a book I’m rifling through to find… — Hilary T. Smith Copy Share Image
When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
