As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people… — Ed Bradley Copy Share Image
Those who say they would write a book if only they had time will never become authors. — Catherine Cookson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I have been shown so much kindness in my life, so for me to write books about good, kind people seems completely… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“Oh, dear reader, it was hard to yell such words at my own handsome visage, but I did. Such was my courage.” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
“This profusion of questions, exclamations, and tales is the new version of the Society. Its members are spread all over the world,… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
I worked in the book publishing business for nearly two decades before I turned my attention to writing, first with a couple… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“Earthlog 3002-3003 In many of the monkey nations of earth their local governments often ban books, and yet not a single earth… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“According to catalog copy for a forthcoming book from the University of Iowa Press, Reading as Therapy: What Contemporary Fiction Does for… — Timothy Aubry Copy Share Image
“How have you kept yourself as yourself all these years? 'Books,' the boy said. 'Thousands of books.' 'They must have been the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I'm not a comic book character. I'm not Indiana Jones or Bond, I'm a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“Pigbog wished he’d paid more attention to the Book of Revelation. If he’d known he was going to be in it, he’d… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Our tradition says that Jesus is God. Maybe we should act as if we think he is instead of worshipping a book.” — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“When you read a good book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it” —” — Julia Barnes Copy Share Image
Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
A novel usually begins, in my experience, with a thought or image that won't leave me alone. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“And on the day when We raise up a witness out of every nation, then permission (to offer excuse) will not be… — Compton Gage Copy Share Image
“Maybe more of us should have plots. Let's take them out of books and put them back in life where they belong.” — Jennifer Ball Copy Share Image
Pakistan tries mentally challenged girl of blasphemy against the Holy Book. India arrests kids for posts on Facebook. Morbid competition? — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
“And further, my son, be admonished by these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is wearisome to… — Adam Houge Copy Share Image
Tod Goldberg has long been one of the most interesting writers around, and Gangsterland is his biggest and best book so far. — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
“It is childish to study a work of fiction in order to gain information about a country or about a social class… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Long Division has a lot of Afrosurrealist impulses. I think the book was more Afrofuturist when it was like 700 pages. — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends. — Rachel Field Copy Share Image
I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies. — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Sometimes even your favourite authors can let you down. However don't let them down by holding this against them.” — Dave Gibson Copy Share Image
I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
