“There are only one or two repeats in the whole book. So that got me thinking polyalphabetic substitution.” — Christa Faust Copy Share Image
A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn… — John Donne Copy Share Image
They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private.… — Dyan Cannon Copy Share Image
I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic! — John Lahr Copy Share Image
“Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way". (Note: What's that?)” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
“Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.” — Jean Fritz Copy Share Image
What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?"… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“the refugees leave a refuge, enter a refuge run to the windows, what they see makes them move on, they move, refuge… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
“As you progress through this book, however, you will discover that our gender-specific differences are actually by God’s design. Furthermore, when understood… — Laura Gallier Copy Share Image
“Oliver...' 'What?' 'I do like you.' 'But?' 'I just don't want you to think that I'm... that is, I'm really not looking… — Susanna Kearsley Copy Share Image
“Now and then there are readings that make the hairs on the neck, the non-existent pelt, stand on end and tremble, when… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can‚Äôt think of… — Roberto Bola√±o Copy Share Image
I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile." "A what?" asked Eragon. "One who loves books," explained Jeod. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Keep your life like an open book, before lifting your finger will be forced to think a hundred times. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it. — Heather Hart Copy Share Image
“The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.” — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The store had a hand-painted sign the read: MOOSE PASS GAS. "That's just wrong," Frank said. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Your life is a book and when Someone leaves its only the end of a chapter not the end of your story. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book. — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
There are writers, and there are readers who want something more. They want to get at the grist of life. — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading. — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems. — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
“I would give a hundred Hemingways for one Stendhal or one Benjamin Constant. And I regret the influence of this literature on… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Literature is the original Internet – every footnote, every citation, every allusion is essentially a hyperlink to another text, to another mind.” — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Professionally, my first book came out at the age of 29, where I wrote about my experiences of backpacking in U.S. on… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
