There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books. — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“Burn the book. It serves you once. Read the book. Serves you for a lifetime. Lend the book. It serves for generations… — Kowtham Kumar K Copy Share Image
Many different substances, as distinct to the practiced eye as stone and wood, go to the making of a novel, and it… — Percy Lubbock Copy Share Image
I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
In 'That Will Never Work,' I give readers a clear-eyed insider's look into how one of the least likely startups grew into… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged . One… — John Rogers Copy Share Image
I want to knock on people's doors and preach. But I also meet a lot of people on planes and in restaurants,… — Serena Williams Copy Share Image
“Running, like literature, like arts, helps you to remember and re-experience some of the impossible strangeness of what it means to be… — Vybarr Cregan-Reid Copy Share Image
It's true that misunderstanding and lack of understanding are often themes in my fiction, but I am grateful for the moments when… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“Books Fall Open Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where, you've never been. Hear voices not once heard before, Reach world… — David McCord Copy Share Image
Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
I am delighted if people find that kind of sustenance in novels, but perhaps it's because they don't read the Scripture that… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know. — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
“And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?” — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I am a very nerdy reader in that I am as disciplined about my reading as I am about my writing. — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
“Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer. — Milton Glaser Copy Share Image
'Slow Heat in Heaven' was my 'breakout' or 'crossover' book, and I loved the freedom I felt writing it. — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.” — Chris Baty Copy Share Image
“I'm writing a book on Procrastination. I hope to start it tomorrow. I've been thinking about it for almost six years now.” — Ron Moore Copy Share Image
From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine. — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
What I would do to be Alice climbing through the looking glass, taking one of those pills that makes you small ...… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Mother Dolores Hart's prose is a reflection of the inner beauty she has always possessed. A fascinating read... and read again! — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
I know I love a novel with an unreliable narrator, and I think many readers do as well. — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
“One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“Books are written to take you places planes could never reach, so let your imagination soar.” — R.L. Stoll Copy Share Image
The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Clearly being an author drove otherwise normal people mad. Especially when combined with Facebook.” — Emma Jameson Copy Share Image
I’m a huge fan of the books myself, so to know that I got to play Clary – who’s a literary heroine… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
