I want the public as well as libraries and schools to enjoy unlimited access to public-domain books. This means no charges for… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I was just dreaming, and if, if I'd written the book and nobody wanted it, I would have put it in the… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“Hard core authors are determined about their craft, and they know that building a brand entails hard work. They eat, breathe and… — Geraldine Solon Copy Share Image
My mum asked if I read books. I said yes then he asked the name of one and I said Facebook! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.” — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it. — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Literature and art are one of a number of relationships I have with the world. Like you have relationships with your friends… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“It’s like looking at all the students and wondering who’s had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Not everybody wants to call sin 'sin'! Some call it mischief. Some call it rebellion. And hardly anybody can agree where we… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
I am a passionate reader, having been tutored very early by my mother. I avidly devoured all books on chemistry that I… — Richard J. Roberts Copy Share Image
“No, writing has not changed me for the better at all; I have merely used up part of my restless, conscienceless youth.… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or… — kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me. — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“The monuments, the ideas left behind by beings like me are my greatest pleasure in life. Without books I would long ago… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone. — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
In non-fiction, I like Wayne Dyer. I have a compilation of his best quotes near my bed! To me he's one of… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page” — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different. — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“There is a big difference between an imperfect book that is read and a perfect book that is never written” — Don Newman Copy Share Image
I had to pinch myself seeing the grassy knoll and the book suppository building. — Trevor Linden Copy Share Image
Writing a novel was completely awesome because parts of it could suck and I could throw them away. I didn't have to… — Austin Grossman Copy Share Image
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it. — John Muir Copy Share Image
I wrote a graphic novel called 'Soul Stealer' with big, beautiful, epic artwork by Chris Shy. It grew into a trilogy. — Michael Easton Copy Share Image
“writing a novel is extremely complicated. So complicated, in fact, that you cannot possibly hold your entire novel in your head all… — Nathan Bransford Copy Share Image
I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
Don't close a book you are reading until you read every word that was not written. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“However, mathematics-inspired books such as Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians (with its valuable, realworld lessons on subtraction) are fair game.” — John Pearson Copy Share Image
“It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books. They impress us with the conviction, that one… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
