I wanted to be one of these multidisciplinary critics who is doing music one day, TV the next, and books the next. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).” — Mike Schmoker Copy Share Image
“All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes. — Whitey Herzog Copy Share Image
Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
This variety of objects will suspend, for some time, the course of the narrative; but the interruption will be censured only by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches… — Mildred D. Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm always tempted in the back of my mind to continue to write things in the Star Trek universe, in the novels… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
They say you don't want to know how sausage is made. Book coverage is like sausage in that way: better not to… — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
“My mother was an excellent woman. Pious, virtuous. Kind. But she was not the intellectual equal of my father. Not by any… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
You can have your beliefs, but if you're not devout, you can't quite believe that something which grows out of a story,… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
“Try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“A book's a strange thing. It's ideas, feelings. It's fragile and complicated. You can't make them like refrigerators or cars.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“I read trash. Empty cereal boxes, empty shampoo bottles, the bottoms of empty Kleenex boxes, and occasionally even a mystical self-help book.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
When I read Doctor Sleep, when it was first published, I was so taken with getting to spend time with Danny Torrance… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
I had written a book that dealt with really serious issues. Was anybody going to want to read a Christmas love story… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“In this city, we've got a saying: once is coincidence, twice is a booking offense! -Judge Dredd” — John Wagner Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly. — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I'm the world's worst at reading reviews and then pretending I've read the book. — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration. — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards. — Christo Copy Share Image
“And you will not hurt him anymore. Not one of you. Because I am his protector. His rear guard. I am his"… — Lucian Bane Copy Share Image
“Read, think, debate and learn. Bring hope, beauty, unity, and joy into yours and others life. Always allow the hope to live… — Jyoti Patel Copy Share Image
“Not only is obeying the Author of the Word a gateway to favour and grace, it is also a gateway to a… — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French… — Sam Cooke Copy Share Image
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
