Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come;… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
“A book is like the best friend you can imagine. Once you read a book, it stays with you forever.” — Jessica McCann Copy Share Image
Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I'm always in search of those books where you don't want to stop reading, and 'Me Before You' is at the top… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
“An author friend of mine said, "Life is an adventure, created by God." I could not agree more. Live the adventure.” — Sandy Nadeau Copy Share Image
“Books are doors to other dimensions, you never know where they are going to take you.” — F. Carod Copy Share Image
I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
My nature is... well... I'm a searcher by nature. I'm constantly searching for something; that's why I have a song called 'Looking… — Vonda Shepard Copy Share Image
“They went on to support their thesis by citing authors with esoteric names, whose works they themselves had not read, a fact… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I very comprehensively studied Irving Thalberg and his biographies. He's who [Scott] Fitzgerald roughly modeled the character after. He worked for him,… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
I want so to live that I work with my hands and my feeling and my brain. I want a garden, a… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Do you know what it is?' [Toby] said thoughtfully. 'It's that they haven't had anything really awful happen to them. No wonder… — Michelle Cooper Copy Share Image
Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“But those who read thrillers are an impatient race. They chafe at scenic rhapsodies and want to get on to the rough… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“WARNING: Brain dribble from a writer could cause good literature for the reader.” — Brick Marlin Copy Share Image
On way. He OK? Aeron Coming. Something wrong? Lucian Take me out of your address book. William — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I inhaled books, and reading has always been my one true love. — Rosie Jones Copy Share Image
I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I do read a lot of autobiographies and biographies but from people who are not in my field - older women, older… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
I loved 'Middlemarch,' I think that's one of my favourite books of all time, actually. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something. — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader. — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical. — Barbet Schroeder Copy Share Image
As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I think that, in all of my time, I got just one fan letter, from an NFL fullback named Darian Barnes. NFL… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“Inez and I had been in the same book club for a while. She once told me that literary theory was reading… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
Fingerprint readers require special hardware, and a lot of people find them creepy and don't want to use them. Smart cards and… — Daniel Lyons Copy Share Image
I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world,… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
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