“Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak… — Chris Meledandri Copy Share Image
“Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.” — David Benioff Copy Share Image
For 'The Book Thief,' I wanted only one outcome, and that was for the director to follow his own vision, just as… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings! — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now.… — Dorothy Hamill Copy Share Image
Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship. — Ismail Kadaré Copy Share Image
I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha! — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
“literature enlarges our world of experience to include both more of the physical world and things not yet imagined, giving the “actual… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah-time or Kwanzaa-time is that people go to bookstores: that they walk around bookstores and look… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The traditional route to success in science fiction is by making a name for yourself in short fiction, so people who read… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes… — Joshua Rogers Copy Share Image
“ Pictures are windows to any lands, But a book is a door that ready stands To him who will open and… — Annette Wynne Copy Share Image
My personal relationship with Ali began in 1988, when we met in New York to explore the possibility of my writing the… — Thomas Hauser Copy Share Image
Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there… — John Green Copy Share Image
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller. — John Green Copy Share Image
Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods and so… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
I talk about my daily dozen in the book [ Today Matters]. Twelve things that are certainly attainable by any of us… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page. — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
If you're going to read a Peretti book, you're going to get a message. But the book is a pretty good read. — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
“There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book… — Claire Wingfield Copy Share Image
The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well.… — Ahmet Zappa Copy Share Image
“If you don't love what you're writing, stop right now: it's not worth your time and certainly not the reader's.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
I could write a whole other book called 'I'm Judging You, America!' I still might. — Luvvie Ajayi Copy Share Image
“Change lies sleeping within books, just waiting for the covers to be opened.” “Exactly.” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“The Soul's sacred ground of being is the foundation for your doing. -- from the book, Doing a 360, page 135” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when she finishes a book at record speed, Dana feels a slight letdown, as if a good friend has hung up… — Susan Crawford Copy Share Image
“Nobody writes a book. What you write every day is a piece of a book, a fragment, a scene.” — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“Books are merely translations of our emotions into words that allow us to connect on an almost blood transfusion level.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Chronology can be dangerous. You can get so linear that it becomes robotic for the reader. — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into! — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent. — Phil McGraw Copy Share Image
I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“A paperback book was wrapped around Barney's massive index finger as he held his place.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
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