“As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. And when I want to know something, I look it up… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“We find little in a book but what we put there,’ Joseph Joubert said. ‘But in great books, the mind finds room… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
I used to read a lot of Isaac Asimov and Philip Dick and 'Inland Empire's' one of the earlier books I read! — Eoin Macken Copy Share Image
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I remember the book The beautiful ones are not yet born now the beautiful ones are on BBM,facebook & twitter, nobody to… — @efiosiugbore Copy Share Image
“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.” — Marc Levy Copy Share Image
“When you read a book, book also reads you! The book will know who you are from the sentences you underline!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“That was a page read and turned over; I was busy now with this new page, and when the engine whistled on… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Have you really read all those books in your room?" She laughed, "Oh God no. I've maybe read a third of 'em.… — John Green Copy Share Image
I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“The openness of such networked devices reflects our growing desire to construct writing in a way that breaks down the traditional distinctions… — Jay David Bolter Copy Share Image
Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Don't waste your time, do something worthwhile with it." But what can that mean: worthwhile? Finally to start realizing long-cherished wishes. To… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There has never been a book like this. At once a poetics of place, a work of deep history, a bildungsroman, and… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share Image
“I don't think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you're a passionate reader, AND read passionately.” — Michelle D. Kwasney Copy Share Image
The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out. — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Ive been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction. — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Its all your Now. Love your now. It cant always be pleasurable, but you can still appreciate the electric awareness of being… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
Someone gave me the Love Languages book, and that has been the best book I've ever read about relationships and has helped… — Kristin Cavallari Copy Share Image
Ive been reading a book called 1,000 sexual positions. Ive reached position 176 and apparently from now on Im going to need a woman. — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
It's all so beautiful . . . the spring . . . and books and music and fires. . . . Why aren't they enough? — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“I slammed the book shut and and crowed, 'And that is why you don't kick the librarian off the investigation!” — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
“Your don't have to burn books to destroy culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“When does a novel begin? The question is almost as difficult to answer as the question, when does the human embryo become… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of the series of books by Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments. I'm a fan myself, so to be… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
“When I wiped you from the book of memory, I did not know I was striking out half my life” — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
I would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say, 'Wow, I never thought of it like that… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“Real readers poison themselves with words. They close each book as though climbing, reborn, from a tomb.” — David Gordon Copy Share Image
Although I wrote a book about infidelity around the world, I ended up concluding that fidelity is quite a good idea. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
