The child who is being raised strictly by the book is probably a first edition. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I think if you can take something out and it doesn't change the book, it doesn't need to be there. — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
“The ECLS data do show, for instance, that a child with a lot of books in his home tends to test higher… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
My dad wanted me to go down a more academic route. He is very much about sticking to the rule book and… — Rita Ora Copy Share Image
“I was a lazy reader as a kid. One nutrition label on a box of Cap’n Crunch and I’d have to take… — M.J. McGuire Copy Share Image
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“In fact, other than the books written by Andy Grove, I don’t know of any management books that teach you how to… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“I love the feel of a book. I love the touch and smell and sound of the pages. I love the handling… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
I couldn't have opened a store without putting books with the clothes. I am still writing as I have always done, and… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
“Drinks were a lot like books, really: it didn’t matter where you were, the contents of a vodka tonic were always more… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and irritatingly as you can. And the good things will… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply...… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
