“Books and workshops and gurus are great, but the very best teacher for your mind is, and will always be, your heart.” — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
“I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.” — Scott Corbett Copy Share Image
“Love is not a formality or an obligation to fullfill to be in good books, but a sheer appreciation without expectations” — Bhavna Khemlani Copy Share Image
Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year,… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.” — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Yeah, when you're making a film, the book is a good tool, but once you have the script and you're making a… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature. — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I have read - nay, I have bought! - Carlyle's 'Latter Day Pamphlets,' and look on my eight shillings as very much… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject ...… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Do you want me to come to the hospital? she offered." Bryant's blue eyes widened. "Good Lord, no, why would you want… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
“Hope is the light you follow; faith is believing there is actually a light--they are the refusal to give up when you… — A. M. Hudson Copy Share Image
You have to have passion for a subject to write about it. You can't expect your readers to feel any excitement if… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Picture books have terrible PR amongst the children of this country. Ask any librarian: after a certain age, children just aren't interested… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
They say your destiny is already written. But sometimes you just have to grab a pen and become your own author. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Relationships are like a book. It takes a few seconds to burn But It takes years to write. So write it carefully… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Though some elements are magical Prue speaks the truth about the treatment of African Americans and veterans in this disquieting,mesmeric read.” — Michelle Anne Schingler Copy Share Image
I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“So what's this about a book club? You girls sit around, reading dirty books, fanning each other's vaginas? Because if so, count… — Jay McLean Copy Share Image
Every filmmaker has this short book of films that don't get made - for a whole host of reasons. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table.… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
My real pleasure is that 4 times a week 1,800 people are standing up and shouting on Broadway for an author who… — Terry Hands Copy Share Image
That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game. — Alan Parry Copy Share Image
I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development. — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted… — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
People don't roll around naked in my books. I do allow them to go to bed if they're married, but it's all… — Barbara Cartland Copy Share Image
“I know the story by heart. The book is just a "do not disturb" sign, to make sure no one talks to… — Laura Bradley Rede Copy Share Image
I guess people might be surprised to know I read comic books. I'm a Marvel girl, as opposed to DC. — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
“There being no international copyright laws, “pirated” editions abounded, with no complaint from the public, or much from authors, who were lionized.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
With each book, I've found myself more and more able to draw off the personal and still be as vulnerable as I… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“Books that glorify virginity demean women with healthy sex drives who aren't married to Jesus.” — Hazel Kelly Copy Share Image
“...and my books are like friends that I come back to at night." ~Cynthia Batten” — Cynthia Batten Copy Share Image
Your skin is not paper, don't cut it. Your face isn't a mask, don't cover it. Your size isn't a book, don't… — Connor Sinnett Copy Share Image
My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
