Books don't prattle. Books don't make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It's a very satisfying partnership. — Carol Berg Copy Share Image
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were… — James Broughton Copy Share Image
I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear. — Eric Burns Copy Share Image
“I tried to think of a good reason as to why I had a sex book down my pants, but my brain… — David LaRochelle Copy Share Image
To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
“That’s why I called my last book Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, because that’s the greatest habit we have to break—thinking,… — Joe Dispenza Copy Share Image
Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Asking Do Chiropractors Pray? in a book by that title, B. J. Palmer answered definitively that “no Chiropractor would pray on his… — Candy Gunther Brown Copy Share Image
I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“We have an odd relationship with words. We learn a few when we are small, throughout our lives we collect others through… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
I remember the cover of this one L'Amour book showed a guy on horseback, leading a pack horse across a creek in… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book. — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by nonmusical things a lot, whether it's a film or a book or whatever. — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I might defend the reviewing trade, but a handful of haughty hired hands no longer having the last word on books is… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line” — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“The way to write a book is the application of the seat of one's pants to the seat of one's chair” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see. — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
As soon as my brain starts working on reading a book, my dreams get a little more exciting, and music comes a… — Yung Lean Copy Share Image
I don't feel ignored. But I'd rather engage readers than dictate my opinion to them. Opinion is so...subjective! — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person. — Terrell Owens Copy Share Image
Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
“Ink, dark as night, creates words, and as they are read, they become the little beads and baubles of the mind.” — Suzanne Valtsioti Copy Share Image
You can read 10,000 quips and quotes and pearly notes but the best wealth to find is held within your own mind. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“When someone says, 'I admire your character,' I never know whether the person is talking about my ethics or referring to someone… — Stifyn Emrys Copy Share Image
Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to… — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair — Stephen King Copy Share Image
That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
“A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is… — Victor J. Banis Copy Share Image
“The good thing about a self-help book is that if you misunderstand something then it won't mock you.” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
