“Poetry is the essence of life in which twinkling lights tickle the minds of readers and take them to a world where… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
A book is like carrying a garden in your pocket. It always is full of life, new smells, and new things to… — Curly Copy Share Image
“Whenever I teach you always learn something. Some of the greatest things you learn, aren't always in books. - Mr. Bucon” — Brooke Alexander Zoey Porter Copy Share Image
Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle. — Sutton Elbert Griggs Copy Share Image
Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
With this book, I truly hope to reach everyone that I don't bump into on the street and share my story. — Teri Hatcher Copy Share Image
And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
“It had become a chimney poking from a vertical universe of bookshelves. There was motion below her. There were people on the… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“sophisticated reader that he is simply referring to magical aspects of sexual activity that were bound to be misunderstood by the general… — Christopher Hyatt Copy Share Image
I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
When somebody says, 'This must be a children's book,' basically they're saying, 'You must be a child.' And so my answer is,… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
But, I think that the reason I responded to this book, sort of paradoxically, is that it starts out like The Big… — Lawrence Kasdan Copy Share Image
After the success of Stephen's book, a whole new crowd of people became very interested in him, and the family was just… — Jane Hawking Copy Share Image
After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I've always longed to turn the last page of a romantic novel but it seems my life is destined to remain a… — Michael Faudet Copy Share Image
“If you find books boring, probably the problem is that you haven't picked a good one. ... You are not searching cliche… — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling. — Bill Peet Copy Share Image
“Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader’s senses” — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
As a traveler, I should probably count myself fortunate to be living in the jet age, and as an author, I know… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.' — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
Whatever's good about your book should be good on page 1, or very few editors are going to get to page 2. — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
When I'm the happiest, my desk is not neat. It has lots of pens and the books I love. It gets messy… — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
“...the perusal of all excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages, who have written… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
Watching well-meaning authors follow in the footsteps of someone going in the wrong direction breaks my heart. — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“When we come across a natural style, we are surprised and delighted; for we expected an author, and we find a man.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“I am what is known as an omnivorous reader and it all goes right through me and out of my mouth.” — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
“ysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.” — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
“you are ever again the wave sweeping through all things RAINER MARIA RILKE, BOOK OF HOURS” — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians. — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
