I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side. — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
“Around nine thirty, but Natalie was still reading a book on her Kindle when I fell asleep thirty minutes later.” — T.R. Ragan Copy Share Image
Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture. — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
“Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right into… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
“She stretched beneath him, bare and aching, held captive by an entirely new form of magic, one she'd thought existed only in… — Christine Warren Copy Share Image
I love words; I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
My publicist actually told me about the book. She's half-Indian, half-Dutch, and she was like, 'You've got to do this book. It's… — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's difficult not to color our perception of author's product with his personality. There are so many examples of this. What do… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I am not that attached to material things. And the good thing is I can make choices. I have very few possessions.… — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
The American people are screaming out saying it's unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the… — David Plouffe Copy Share Image
“At the beginning, the author's writing was like a selfie: a disposable plea for attention that was all about him and his… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, it will help ensure that more of what you like to read will be written. Thank you.” — Dana Stabenow Copy Share Image
BTW A 24 week old embryo is not a human being. You're not a human being until you're in my phone book. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“As soon as I take down her book and open it...My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.” — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me! — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I'd rather read than watch a movie. It gives me new ways to approach my delivery, gives me a new vocabulary. — Rich Homie Quan Copy Share Image
All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“But books feel real. Surely they must seem more real to you than anyone. They can hurt you. They can break your… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's nothing quite so irritating to an author as a family member's easy confidence that, of course, the book will come. — Carolyn Hart Copy Share Image
“Real reading is reincarnation. There is no other way to put it. It is being born again into a higher form of… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and write many of my… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“people who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened 1 are right to be” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone,… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar. — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“I am failed for some subject in exam But my friend passed in all , Now he is a college students And… — Meet Chauhan Copy Share Image
The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than your own. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with ones own” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
