I was very ambitious at a young age. When I was six, I would tell everybody that I wanted to be an… — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
“If the wealth you've accumulated is in the form of friends, family and books, then you're doing life right.” — Saleem Sharma Copy Share Image
When a character bears the same name as the author it's just an invitation to have some fun. — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every brilliant book I read is an influence and an inspiration. As is every brilliant movie I watch and every brilliant box… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
I think there is an insatiable appetite for romance and for love stories, which is partly why these books and movies do… — Chris Harrison Copy Share Image
Kids tell me all the time, "I don't know how you do it, but that's us in the book." That's the kind… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
“For some of us books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of… — Ann Lamott Copy Share Image
I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance… — Mikhail Sholokhov Copy Share Image
“Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on;… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“It's Violent. You imagine it deafening, red, boiling-hot. It's like a comic book: the bright colors, the crude outlines, the words in… — Joan Wickersham Copy Share Image
“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factorites,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The greatest stories appeal to our deepest selves, the parts of us snobbery can’t reach, the parts that connect the child to… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth. — Steve Bisley Copy Share Image
“He said, “What’s in the wardrobe?” She glanced at him. “Books that don’t behave.” Misbehaving books? Not bothering to hide his skepticism,… — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
“Until you opened it, the book was nothing that an untrained eye would look twice at.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Writing YA fantasy books is like sneaking out after dark, falling down the rabbit hole and ending up in the most exciting… — Carolyn Hockley Copy Share Image
Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It's still under… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“My books are inspired by children - sometimes my own. My writing is powered by chocolate - not always my own!” — Cas Lester Copy Share Image
God loves all his children, somehow we've forgotten, but we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago. — Macklemore Copy Share Image
“Write a book, create an identity, create a property, create a legacy for yourself.” — Neeraj Singhvi Copy Share Image
There are many books in the library, each with its own story to tell. But as you fall in love, reality becomes… — Boys Be Copy Share Image
If I checked out a book, every time I checked out a girls...i would be a walking genius! — Azgraybebly Josland Copy Share Image
Chico: "Here's the book, it's a dollar" Groucho: "Here's a ten, and shoot the change." Chico: "I don't have change I'd have… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
There's all kind of vision in this Book. Just open it up and your people will follow. — Matthew Carter Copy Share Image
I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since… — Barry Corbin Copy Share Image
“God—if there is a God—would not choose one man above another or one people above another.” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives. — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“But this book does not offer a single page of original and unpublished work. What then is the need, now, for such… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Believe what you like, but don't believe everything you read without questioning it. — Pauline Baynes Copy Share Image
I tweet when the tweet arrives. Never force a tweet or you will hurt your babymaker - and this is true of… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
I jerk off inside books and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you probably never heard. — Immortal Tech Copy Share Image
