The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I give people 'If You Came Softly' when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I've never set a book in Europe. I've lived in Europe three times, but somehow or other it wasn't the experience that… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
As always, a lot of bad books will be published. Some good books will be published, and you have to seek them… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
BBC had tried to develop the book, set in England, as a two-hour movie. I went to a meeting and they said,… — Glen Morgan Copy Share Image
what has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Reading Chekhov, I felt not happy, exactly, but as close to happiness as I knew I was likely to come. And it… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
'California Bones' is the first volume in my trilogy about Daniel Blackland, a wizard trying to survive in a world that eats… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
“We hope that general readers with an interest in Japan will find in these accounts of fieldwork a wide spectrum of illustrations… — Theodore C. Bestor Copy Share Image
“Susannah: (sotto voce) Everybody's a goddam critic. Jake: Blaine, I have one more. Blaine: EXCELLENT. Jake: Out of the eater came forth… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
“I love to read, but I'm not a reviewer. I'll leave the reviewing to someone else. Suffice it to say, if I'm… — John Inman Copy Share Image
I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read… — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image
“If someone else has done it then I can do it too. If no one has then I can be the first.… — Soraya Copy Share Image
“In his excellent book Irresistible, Adam Alter writes about the rise of behavioral addictions in contemporary society.” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
I don't know whether we Church members fully appreciate the Book of Mormon, one of our sacred scriptures, as we really should. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Stories are life," protested Pico. "Without them, books would be only paper and ink, with them they breathe, the reader is drawn… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
We've been moving around so much that I have a Tupperware container full of my books. Some people have a blanky; I've… — Hilarie Burton Copy Share Image
“That's the pleasure and challenge of reading great novels; you get to see yourself as others see you and you get to… — John Green Copy Share Image
I had always been a reader and a skeptic, so when I was old enough to break away from organized religion, it… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
“Literature is not an instruction manual. For obvious reasons, this is rarely noted in fiction.” — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Nonfiction, to me, feels like an argument, whereas a novel is like a series of questions. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The holy book tells us the truth will set us free but in this world I know different. — Lucky Dube Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
One day at my grandmother's house, I discovered 'The Secret Garden' and read it. This was the first book I found entirely… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Understanding the single-line quote is like comprehending the bulky book with its title only and correctly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is my book, and in my book my soul With its two woven threads of joy and pain, And both were… — Alfred B. Douglas Copy Share Image
“A newspaper that wishes to make its fortune should never waste its columns and weary its readers by praising anything.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
This is a magical and inspiring metaphor through which adult readers will identify anger issues and discover practical methods to energize enduring… — Jeffrey K. Zeig Copy Share Image
“I love books. I really, really love them. There's something special about bringing people and books together” — Margaret Truman Copy Share Image
Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
