Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was:… — Joseph McCarthy Copy Share Image
A lot of times, we tend to be reactive instead of proactive. I encourage my readers to be proactive with their life… — Tabitha Brown Copy Share Image
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I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art. — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
“You deserve to be the chorus to a person’s favorite song. You deserve to be the dedication in their favorite book.” — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth. — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
Short fiction and the novel, nonfiction and fiction, electronic texts and books - these are not opposites. One need not destroy the… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“i loved the freedom writers diary and even though i only read it because my teacher made us i loved the book.… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is my last communique from the planet of the monsters. Never again will I immerse myself in literature's bottomless cesspools. I… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“The End of Nature was the first book for a general audience about global warming; it came out in 1989 and soon… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“There’s a book here in which I read about the trial of a Jew, who took a child of four years old… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“I was a tongue, a gazette. The bearer of "the truth of the whispers." I knew of hollowed books, trunks with false… — Eva Stachniak Copy Share Image
I'd never been interested in the Kennedy assassination until '88, when I read Libra. And from that point, I went out and… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“Alfonso Reyes said that one published what he had written in order to avoid spending his life correcting it: one publishes a… — Fernando Sorrentino Copy Share Image
When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Before selling, try to re-evaluate the company again and see where the stock sells in realtion to its book value. — Walter Schloss Copy Share Image
The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Reading a book is like having the ability to dip a straw into the authors soul and sip and slurp without lowering… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella. — Theodore White Copy Share Image
What a lovely display of personhood. He's like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I'm fun but smart.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm no good at describing my books. 'Holes' has been out now for seven years, and I still can't come up with… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more. — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Ruth's writing is so joyful, funny and uplifting; it's always a real treat of a read. — Fiona Walker Copy Share Image
Because of the nature of my brand, it's so important our readers know it really is me behind my keyboard. — Brit Morin Copy Share Image
Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage. — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write. — Julien Green Copy Share Image
“We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them… — Pamela Glass Kelly Copy Share Image
I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
“Haven’t you learned you should never judge a book by its cover? There is a lot of assumptions you’ve made based on… — S.J.D. Peterson Copy Share Image
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“Hedges, Chris. 2009. Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. New York: Nation Books. Legaspi,” — Bandy X. Lee Copy Share Image
Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche. — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth, Is better than life with love forever, And… — James Jeffrey Roche Copy Share Image
That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?' — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
