A good solo is like a book. It will start out in a phrase, it will go on in paragraphs, and then… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature. — Jim Leach Copy Share Image
Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was a promiscuous reader. I loved Nancy Drew books and Tom Swift - never the Hardy Boys - but I also… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
If you read a book by a cis woman, there's a full range of people doing things for all sorts of different… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
While you certainly will recognize 'Outlander' if you've been reading the books, there's also this wonderful sense of novelty and discovery about… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us deep into… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“crooked head guided her eyes along the spines of Ludford's books, she was jolted back upright by the ringing of a phone.… — Adam Croft Copy Share Image
Describing Wallace Stegner as an 'author' is like describing a grizzly as 'brown.' — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare, the greatest of poets, was the greatest reader of Nature and life.” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Thomas à Kempis: “Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a book.” — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible. — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like its all perfectly normal in the… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
People buy books to own knowledge and have others see them as people of knowledge. — Donna Pomona Copy Share Image
“The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life. — Rafael Moneo Copy Share Image
“Lacey-girl, books take you anywhere. Any place you want to go. You remember that always.” — Carol Lynch Williams Copy Share Image
That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
I read a lot when I was at college, but really, only a few of Dickens's books work for me. — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements. — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
First published in 1956, 'Rum Doodle' is a parody, I suppose, of the old-school mountaineering books of the time. — Tim Key Copy Share Image
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“Nonfiction is a form of literature that lies halfway between fiction and fact.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda.” — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
