I don't get to do that very often so to just have a completely free evening where your mind is relaxed enough… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of the 'Geordie Shore,' 'Towie'-type stuff. I'd rather watch something else, or read a book. — Adrian Lester Copy Share Image
“No creature on earth has a right to think himself a human being if he doesn't know at least one good book” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels. — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong: I can and do waste time on the Internet with the best of them, but in some respects,… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The mere fact of my novel being filmed means very little to me. For a long while after 'The Crimson Petal's publication… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“I'm as apolitical as possible. I don't hang out with too many people. I'm a loner. For the most part, when I… — Eric Bischoff Copy Share Image
The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the 'capstone,' with continuing latter day… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
“If you want to succeed at whist, either be a good whist-player, or play with marked cards. You may want a book… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I reached over, opened it in the middle, and began reading Tolstoy's War and Peace. Nothing had changed. It was still a… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David. — Luke Ford Copy Share Image
The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork. — William F. Nolan Copy Share Image
'The Fourth Hand' was a novel that came from twenty years of screenwriting concurrently with whatever novel I'm writing. — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Books -- they come home hot in your hands and then by increments they warm your life, like heated bricks in a… — Robin R. Meyers Copy Share Image
I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“Personally, I think the "Potter" books have too many adverbs and not enough sex.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I think that The Second Sex will seem an old, dated book, after a while. But nonetheless, a book which will have… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience. — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? — Amy Purdy Copy Share Image
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ” — Vanessa M. Chattman Copy Share Image
“Everybody manages one way or another; everyone who is alive and reading this book has managed.” — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“The day it went live on Kindle, 33 people visited my web site. I wish they'd all bought the book.” — Marilynn Larew Copy Share Image
“Even the ancient mariner, with his wonderful tale, succeeded in stopping only one of three! No book is for everybody.” — Leon Garfield Copy Share Image
“A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and… — David Shields Copy Share Image
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