“One of these days, Strickland is going to write a little book on his experiences. That book will be worth buying; and… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A novel should tell a story, be a pleasure to read, and at the same time it should be thought-provoking, even a… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal! — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
“I believe the books we write are the dreams we couldn't find on the bookshelves...” — Ty Zeiter Copy Share Image
The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Music, art, and literature are inseparable for me. How does "composition" evolve in a music and art context? It's a question we… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning...Who ever thought I'd be a children's author -- let alone a… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
A book, at the same time, also has to do with what I call a buzz in the head. It's a certain… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Beginning authors often get in their own way … They forget that they’ve been telling stories since they could talk. … The… — Cynthia Leitich Smith Copy Share Image
“Option 2: Begin at the End It’s sometimes a very fun way to open a book that you show the reader the… — Emma Fisher Copy Share Image
“There's nothing quite like reading a good book that just might become your favorite.” — Joscelyn Gleave Copy Share Image
When someone thinks, "I liked his last book, I'll hope this new one is good" and shells out their hard-earned, I fervently… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
“In the presence of a reader of Teilhard De Chardin I feel disarmed, nonplussed, ready to break down in tears.” — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa. — Tom Barbash Copy Share Image
I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. — David Eddings Copy Share Image
Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
That book is good Which puts me in a working mood. Unless to Thought be added Will Apollo is an imbecile. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is with the common book that most readers will spend their head-tilted hours.” — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
“I have a fear of dying partway through a book—of never knowing the ending. It’s silly, I know, but it makes me… — Steve Robinson Copy Share Image
Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft. — Bernie Taupin Copy Share Image
“My quotes are being used in other authors creations. To be recognized while I'm alive has surpassed my expectations” — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“I'd stop the world from spinning for you." That silly line oddly touched me. "I love you." "Liked that one, did you.” — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
“Reading books doesn't make you smarter. Reading smart books makes you smarter. Reading dumb books makes you dumber.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I choose Hosea. Oh, there's no book of the Bible which more beautifully and more painfully demonstrates how very much God loves… — Jennifer Rothschild Copy Share Image
When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
