Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk,… — Julie Gregory Copy Share Image
What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“They damned the books I read and the things I thought by calling them immoral; later the fashion changed, and they damned… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
There is a difference between writing and being an author. Authors talk. I'm standing here talking now. This has nothing to do… — T. R. Pearson Copy Share Image
In 'Big Money Energy' I guide readers through the same five-part plan I used to create epic changes in my own life. — Ryan Serhant Copy Share Image
The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. — Robert Byrne Copy Share Image
“When I was a boy I felt that the roll of rhyme in poetry was to compel one to find the un-obvious-… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
“My generation was weaned on subliminal advertising, stupid television, slasher movies, insipid grocery-store literature, MTV, VCRs, fast food, infomercials, glossy ads, diet… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“I think you’ve forgotten that this place holds a lot more than just betraying Hobgoblins. Call upon the spirits, summon fairies, raise… — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
Gone are the days when heroes are emotionally locked away from the world until the end of the book, and thank goodness… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices...… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“CHIEF LAMBIASE IS a frequent visitor to the store, and to justify these visits, he buys books. Because Lambiase doesn’t believe in… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Mindi Scott has a real talent for getting inside her protagonist's head. She sketches out Coley's story in grand swathes, and then… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
“A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination. — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today.… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
That'd be just what I need: a rash of car thefts across America, committed by dedicated readers. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Today starts a fresh page in the day of the life of the book of you. Live it to its fullest and… — Laura S Copy Share Image
The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
“As long as a reader hasn't willingly put down his book, he is a potentially dangerous individual.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
But literature, I discovered, can also save you. Truly. Over the cliché and through the truth, it can save. — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That time in your life when he walks in unexpectadly, not knowing hes going to be the one who makes you draw… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love being an author. I love actual writing, and I love communicating with children. And it keeps me young. — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It's all sex for me. Politics is sex. Race is sex. It's the novel. It's the novel! — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“What is obvious about this section of the Book of Mormon is that it was borrowed from the KJV and placed in… — Grant H. Palmer Copy Share Image
I think I grew up in an 'acultural' household - no books, no paintings, never went to an art gallery. I say… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
If I had a bowler hat, I'd take it off to the author of this beautifully crafted steampunk novel. — Chris d'Lacey Copy Share Image
It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by… — David Crabb Copy Share Image
No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention. — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A misconception that exists in the eyes of the general reading population is that authors make truckloads of money. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist… — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
