At least when I was a kid and a reader, I loved the feeling of wondering whether or not something was real,… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“A person is a novel: you don't know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worth… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.” — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go. — Jonathan Pryce Copy Share Image
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I am going to read this terrible book with the boring title that does not contain stormtroopers,” — John Green Copy Share Image
I like looking at a book and asking myself, 'How do I replicate that experience I just had as a reader?' — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“book on Archimboldi, a book that might be the grand Archimboldian opus, the pilot fish that would swim for a long time… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
New Rule: If an Evangelical tries to use Halloween to pimp Jesus to kids, they get to egg his house. On Halloween,… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“We are, I am, you are by cowardice or courage the one who find our way back to this scene carrying a… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
I want to wake up one morning and know how to write page one, or page 10, or page 250. But I… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
“Thousands of persons, many of whom never darkened the door of a college, have learned to read books that most of our… — Stringfellow Barr Copy Share Image
One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I love books that rhyme. And I love books that are clever and have little lines in them that are meant to… — Savannah Guthrie Copy Share Image
I don't have a boss. Well, I have a boss: the public. If the public doesn't buy my books, I would be… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
I bought a new book, '100 new ways to make love'. I ended up in traction - it was a misprint. — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
If you care about who I want to write about, I'll write about the people you want to read about. — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
“The truth is, I’d lied to him. I loved the book. I thought it was the most beautiful thing I’d ever read.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I don't have time for invisible books when there are so many real books to read.” — Gina Sheridan Copy Share Image
Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“My brakes sound like my horn, and my car’s bumper is bumpy enough to be brail. My ideal reader would be a… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too. — Sarah Mlynowski Copy Share Image
No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned… — Tablo Copy Share Image
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“had my books been any worse I would not have been invited to Hollywood and if they had been any better I… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“A writer edits his thoughts more thoroughly the more readers he has. You can tell I only have two readers, myself included.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Our life is like a book and when Someone leaves you. It's only the end of a chapter not the end of… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
“The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, and it smells good. Writing is… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It once occured to me that literature - all art really - is either talking to people about God, or talking to… — Paul Quarrington Copy Share Image
“I've never met an author I can't love to hate or a book I haven't paid full price for.” — Keith M. Weller Copy Share Image
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice! — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
