When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Helping my little sis with homework!!...Freshening up on American government! Can't believe it's been 10 years since Ive read this book! — Audrina Patridge Copy Share Image
One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“You can’t give what you don’t have. To write, you must read. To write well, read well.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Reading a book, sharing a story, is the most intimate of experiences. It's the closest that I ever come to a Vulcan… — Cathy Maxwell Copy Share Image
I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things, as a critic, was finding books by new writers who possessed a distinctive voice and vision, an… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
I love to read, and so I've been reading everything I can, not intensely, but I love to read so I read… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
With toilet books, people don't review them that much. They don't really pay much attention to them. It's just like, "Oh, okay.… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
My relationship with Andrew JiYu Weiss has always been inspirational, his support and guidance always beneficial. My hope is that those who… — Claude AnShin Thomas Copy Share Image
I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I don't have any children, but if I had a baby, I would have to name it, so I would get a… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I like cooking but I don't know much and whenever I enter the kitchen, my mother sends me out! Because whenever I… — Soundarya Copy Share Image
I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga… — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
“A word to the unwise. Torch every book. Char every page. Burn every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“But there is much that cannot go into books, and that is the loss with which I become increasingly concerned.” — John Williams Copy Share Image
“How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Legendary comic book storyteller Will Eisner put it this way: "Technique is secondary. Technique comes as a result of how you do… — Brian McDonald Copy Share Image
“Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, a book that offers an entertaining and engaging overview of behavioral economics.” — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence. — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it,… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“I write with the entire alphabet, not just the popular letters. Readers don't want to lose themselves in the text. They want… — Mark R. Trost Copy Share Image
“Author note re: Torn (Book #2)..."There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice!" ~ F.… — Kim Karr Copy Share Image
You can't think your way to being in love, or able to be loved. However, intellect is also useful for things like… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
Many books are available for teach HOW TO LOVE SOMEONE But a single book is not available for teach HOW TO FORGET… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I am delighted to be named Troll Of The Year 2013 by 'The Guardian' - a paper read by people called Theo… — Katie Hopkins Copy Share Image
“She always wanted to be the kind of person who could play the "Moonlight" Sonata. She buries her failure in this, as… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
