I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours. — John Hope Copy Share Image
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We will put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It remains unbelievable to me that I have any readers beyond my own blood relations - it's a crazy, wild gift. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“I have books in every corner of my house. 'Cleaning' my books is a pointless endeavor.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
“He treated...my scarred as shit past and body as chapters of a book he wanted to hold in his hands and finish.” — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
“Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though.” — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
If you are anything like me --- Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome --- then you have undoubtedly read many… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
“The author makes a tacit deal with the reader. You hand them a backpack. You ask them to place certain things in… — Frank Conroy Copy Share Image
“I have not written for their pleasure... I have never flattered their opinions, nor their pride; nor will I. Neither will I… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
The stakes in my books tend to be kind of ridiculously high. In 'Kid vs. Squid,' the question is whether or not… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
Then I realized what separated us: what I thought about him could not reach him; it was psychology, the kind they write… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I love picture books. I think some of the best people in children's books are the ones who create their own picture… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and… — Bella Thorne Copy Share Image
I had this big complex because I didn't go to college. There was a whole era where I got linked to everybody.… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
“Book reviewer: Very often a writer who has never been published taking out their frustrations on a writer who has.” — Raul Ramos y Sanchez Copy Share Image
“Does anyone believe in that? That souls can transmigrate?’ ‘I do,’ says George. ‘I think souls can be in books, too.” — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
I had never heard of 'young adult novels,' which I guess are about teenage gangs and the new boy in town or… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I hope one day God will reveal all the truths to people that He has never sent any Holy Book, nor did… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds'… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
“Sometimes there’s more to a person then what they let you see Kyla,” -Quoted by the character Christian out of my book… — Whitney T. Hines Copy Share Image
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Sometimes one must choose between turning the pages and move on and closing the book for a better future — Mercy Pheona Copy Share Image
Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and lived at least… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It is a lot harder to write a good book or a good column in a persuasive way without making fun of… — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
I have said before, and shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I don't read because I don't have a life - I read because I choose to live many.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you talk to an author or an artist, you’re only ever getting half the story. We are crafting narratives for you.… — Phoebe North Copy Share Image
When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St.… — Tadashi Shoji Copy Share Image
“A story is a great way to describe your vision. Unlike a list of requirements, it helps the reader understand what’s important… — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
You are the author of your life, unfortunately you are writing in pen and cannot erase your mistakes — Jerald Delacruz Copy Share Image
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that… — John Irving Copy Share Image
None of us, of course, will ever read all the books we'd like, but we can still make a stab at it. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
There will come a time when nobody reads my books and no one remembers who I was. And in the meantime, I'll… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
