“But instead of thinking about my book and how to write it, as I go pacing the floor, I fall to counting… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life. — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
“There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share… — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
As long as I keep my head clear and hit the books, then God will take me to whatever heights I'm going… — Jrue Holiday Copy Share Image
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
Don't make a whole to-do about it. Don't get down on yourself be- cause you're not an expert rower; don't start reading… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
I used to be very disciplined about only buying three books ahead of what I was reading, but my husband corrupted me,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Following Jesse's wonderful advice I will have to change my quote to: If have a sense of humour, you'll love my books;… — Jayde Scott Copy Share Image
I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look… — Percy Lubbock Copy Share Image
“Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
There was a time when going out to parties and dinner parties and clubs was an exciting thing to do. I'd wake… — Gina Bellman Copy Share Image
“Can one understand the presence of English literature without the absences of Irish literature? Are the presences in the former, at some… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Art books are filled with interesting images. And that’s cool and all, but I look more for the nudes.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
People say Hey, I'm an open book. But could there be another cover over that title? — Alexandra Copy Share Image
“Proposed Roads to Freedom In this book Russell weighs the respective advantages and disadvantages of Socialism, Marxism and Syndicalism.” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied. — Monica Lewinsky Copy Share Image
In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal. — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I was not trying to write some sort of serious meditation on war and peace. 'The Grace of Kings' is meant to… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
A shame really, because putting the right book in the right kid’s hands is kind of like giving that kid superpowers. — Cecil Castellucci Copy Share Image
I have become so used to having people say, 'We loved your movie' instead of 'We read your book' that now I… — Charles R. Jackson Copy Share Image
A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. – Lord Chesterfield, eighteenth-century statesman” — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Try reading the Book of Mormon because you want to, not because you have to. Discover for yourself that it is true. — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
“The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is like sliding down a rainbow! Marketing it is like trudging through a field of chewed bubblegum on a… — Betty Dravis Copy Share Image
“Compared to the complexity of understanding grief, reading Foucault or Blanchot is like perusing a children’s picture book.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“Growing Literacy of the Heart and Mind Cultivates the Landscape of a Child's Future.” — Clyde Heath Copy Share Image
When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“Fiction can be more real to the reader than reality itself because fiction is the essence of life” — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
