“You won't find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.” —Ebb Autumn” — Richard Due Copy Share Image
When you trust your readers, you're hoping they will see what you see. Not every book is for every person. — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football,… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The spectacular sparkle of set-apart femininity is found through absolute abandonment to the Author of all true beauty. — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarate, and the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
On two or three book tours, I have visited bookstores in the Mall of America and signed copies of my books and… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
“Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and… — Peter S. Jennison Copy Share Image
“In the ideal public library, we are all readers of the “middling sort.” Reading whatever we will, we fulfill a public function,… — Matthew Battles Copy Share Image
“Adults are not idiots often in books such as this one, the opposite impression is given. Adults in those stories will either… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
Any man will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I was writing the first few books, what I would do is write a bunch of sentences and then go back… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels. — John Burdett Copy Share Image
I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around. — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
“a true reader always had at least one bookcase filled with books, despite owning an e-reader.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the words in your copy should be “like the windows in a storefront. The reader should be able to see right through… — Robert W. Bly Copy Share Image
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include… — Charles Rolls Copy Share Image
Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“The feeling of death is not as peaceful as they make it sound in movies and books. It was frightening and empty...I… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I have a mini-library at home and I have begun reading books I'd purchased during my travels. — Vivek Copy Share Image
I'm really attracted to authors who take on really tricky material with a very open mind and take a subject matter that… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
My heart is like an open book, it depends on how you read me,don't judge me by my cover, look in and… — Abrarul Haque Copy Share Image
to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my… — Bridget Carpenter Copy Share Image
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“No book is really a fixed object. Every reader reads a book differently, and each book works in a different way on… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl!” — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When we're onstage we're not literature, we're sitcom. You have to have catchphrases.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind. — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
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