“No thanks; I'd much rather pretend I'm somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.” — Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer Copy Share Image
My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter. — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
A book is not a short-term project. It's essentially your baby, so it takes a lot of work. — Luvvie Ajayi Copy Share Image
My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room. — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
“It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic. — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
The seriousness or otherwise of the subject matter is often irrelevent to the question of whether a book is any good. F… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
“Orwell. Wrote a book that said that a totalitarian society sustains itself by the basic selfishness of everybody. When the chips were… — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“ATTENTION ALL AUTHORS: Be very careful who you give acknowledgement to in your books. Reason: That acknowledgement is in permanent, ink and… — Anita R. Sneed-Carter Copy Share Image
“To read is not a virtue; but to read well is an art, and an art that only the born reader can… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list.… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Forget about Republican or Democrat - what about the kid in the middle of the country who wants to play the drums,… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
“This is not my favorite way to wake up. My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
...the Bible itself is less read than preached, less interpreted than brandished. Increasingly, pastors may drape a limply bound Book over the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Bad criticism has followed things like comic books or TV, and they put down a medium. A medium cannot be inherently good… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
I look at books as being a form of activism. Sometimes they'll show us a side of the world that we might… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
We will forever be at the bottom if we are not educated of how the world works. Expand your mind, open a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One sheds one’s sicknesses in books — repeats and presents again one’s emotions, to be master of them.’ DH Lawrence (The Letters… — Ella Berthoud Copy Share Image
nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too! — Gladys Taber Copy Share Image
I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history. — Dave Foley Copy Share Image
“Being human makes us one. Be uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins” — Nancy S. Mure Copy Share Image
There is no end to the promotion. There is no end to the possibilities. You can continue to promote a book for… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“RUNT is my FAVORITE book.It starts out small.Then,it gets exciting in the middle.In the end it settled.” — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
To go in the record books as British champion is something else and a step towards being top of the division. — Daniel Dubois Copy Share Image
Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books. — Travis Barker Copy Share Image
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I like to write books that touch my heart. I want to entertain, and I love to entertain myself. — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
“So the books are waiting. Of this you may be confident: they'll be ready when the whim strikes you.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
