As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter how many copies of my book I sell. The important thing is that the person reading it likes it.” — Jennifer Raygoza Copy Share Image
People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story. — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
“Then, in the twentieth century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations, Digests, Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories,… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“INTERVIEWER Have you ever been envious of another writer? WODEHOUSE No, never. I’m really such a voracious reader that I’m only too… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I reached out to [Brett Favre] early on; sent him some of my books and a letter. Then I had two or… — Jeff Pearlman Copy Share Image
This is what makes me happy: ...Any music-free restaurant ... A grandson who offers to clean the snow off my driveway and… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
“I have three copies of the first edition, which sold in double figures, speaking loosely; there was a moment when Blond's 'Lord… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I don't think most books can be justifiably translated on screen. The film versions can't convey the right emotion, fuel your imagination… — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
Because I spend so much time traveling, I tend to do most of my reading on the same iPad on which I… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life. — Margaret Forster Copy Share Image
“I might also say, regarding reviews and reviewers, that I have yet to read a review of any of my own books… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident. — Kaye Gibbons Copy Share Image
“Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
“Too much time has passed for us to be the same so go ahead and walk away ill do the same -;… — S.J. Dalton Copy Share Image
“Books don't need to be published," Lars Högström said. "The main thing is that they should be written.” — Torgny Lindgren Copy Share Image
Two of my favourite books are Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tropic of Capricorn.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting. — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
The book. The book...think about a book. What a perfect invention. The best and most important ever. — Jann Arden Copy Share Image
I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait.… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
When I think about a book like 'A Clockwork Orange,' which I really loved, the weird hybrid language is what I remember… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I cheat on my books a lot, which is not a good thing because it's good to stick with one book and… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Sometimes family members will ask to be kept out of certain things that I'm writing, and I try to respect that. I'd… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“I don't know what to say about it, except that it moved me in a way one hopes to be moved each… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
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Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
“Libraries are congenial places but unfortunately none of us like these places because we hates books and books are leading us to… — Abid Hussain Library Officer Copy Share Image
Bed is a good friend; book is a good friend; night is a good friend. Try to bring them all together. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
![“I reached out to [Brett Favre] early on; sent him some of my books and a letter. Then I had two or three arranged times with him, and was blown off. Then I sent him another letter, and he sent me a text, explaining that he didn't wish to talk. I'm not mad - it's his right, obviously. Plus, his…” quote by Jeff Pearlman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98b/jeff-pearlman-33038_book_i-reached-out-to-brett-favre-early-on-se_1606400.jpg)
