Try writing...a list, a letter, a journal, a novel, a declaration. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that. — Dana Brunetti Copy Share Image
How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When someone says they've read your book 15 times, you think, 'Well, you should read something else.' — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Every generation comes upon the movie again, and then, invariably, the books have a spike in sales because people want to read… — John Lee Hancock Copy Share Image
“By reading a book, one can learn in a matter of days what it took the author an entire lifetime to learn” — Pastor John Weaver Copy Share Image
“Literature is mostly about having sex and not having children. Life is the other way around” — David Lodge Copy Share Image
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“the Nazis burned books in public. Liberals suppress opinions that differ from their own through influences they want kept secret. The right… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“In a decade that would become known as the Roaring Twenties, a “Jazz Age” glamorized in the works of authors like F.… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor… — Horace Copy Share Image