I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.” — John Williams Copy Share Image
Painting is a feeling, Never spoil it. Face is a book, try to read it. Love is precious, Be ready to sacrifice… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“Using the comma well announces that you have an ear for sense and rhythm, confidence in your style and a proper respect… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“I never knew book were important than anything even humans until i discovered that books are straight forward why humans are unstable.” — Oladeji jeremy Copy Share Image
“The sound of a crackling fire going in the fireplace, a nice warm blanket and a good book is just about heaven… — E. Leighanne Grimm-Weever Copy Share Image
What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Somebody once said that my look was like if Aileen Wuornos got acquitted and got a book deal. And I was like,… — Willam Belli Copy Share Image
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A readers eyes may glaze over after they take in a couple of paragraphs about Canadian tariffs or political developments in Pakistan;… — Donald E. Graham Copy Share Image
We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“When people say they don’t read, I always wonder if they don’t because they can’t or because they won’t. Then I think,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.” — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor. — Paul Scofield Copy Share Image
Neither books nor people have Velcro Sides -- there must be a bonding agent -- someone who attaches child to book. — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book? — Lee Child Copy Share Image
Together with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is an indispensable witness of the doctrines of Christ and His divinity. — Tad R. Callister Copy Share Image
The comic book [is] the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
“I had once read a book that said a traveler should always have one and it made a lot of sense.” — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“If you always read the same old ideas, what progress can you make in the name of discovering new paths?” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual. — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people. — Linda Lael Miller Copy Share Image
Oh how silly weve been! We should have stroked them! Why didnt we guess? Really witty, giving us books that try and… — Draco Malfoy Copy Share Image
I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it. — Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Copy Share Image
I am always concerned with ideas of territory and movement. Indeed, my first book after Bunker Archeology was entitled L'insecurite du territoire (1976). — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
“There is a book for every walk of life. No matter the age, race, or gender there is something that will appeal… — Carmela Dutra Copy Share Image
“Memories were as important as books and almost as important as proper indexing.” — Genevieve Cogman Copy Share Image
“Already there are too many books in the world. There are more every day. One man cannot hope to read them all.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When I do read, it tends to be serious books like autobiographies and if I've met a famous person, I'll read up… — Graeme Souness Copy Share Image