Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it… — Vicky Hartzler Copy Share Image
It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The definition of a good story is one that remains with you long after you've turned that last page.” — T.A. Uner Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with books. When a good book hits me, it's all I can think about and all I can do. — Jessie Cave Copy Share Image
But one of my absolutely favorite things to do is go to comic book stores on the weekends. I'm a huge comic… — Paige Spiranac Copy Share Image
“The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Authors often become identified with an item of clothing - Zadie Smith, for instance, is known for her head wraps, and Fran… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
After 20 years of writing academic prose and lectures, it seems very familiar and straightforward to me. Writing a novel for the… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions -… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
I'm sixty-eight years old. What I do now will be read by unborn generations for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years. For me,… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write.… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“Whatever that place is, I don't much care -- not unless a book has happened there.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read. — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
“At some point though I need to stop cataloguing them or I’ll never get this book finished.” — Joe Cater Copy Share Image
They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than… — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
“To read is to humble yourself to learn and to love yourself to be entertained.” — Miranda A. Uyeh Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know, this is a good book, how come no one is paying attention to… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe… — Rachel Hall Copy Share Image
“Warish Shah I call out to you, Rise from your grave, speak out and turn, Another page of the Book of Love” — Amrita Pritam Copy Share Image
Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books. Not everybody has to do it. — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books... really is… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
“Read the story like you believe it, read with passion to your children. Encourage their imagination” — Ian Davies Copy Share Image
“On the table beside me is a book entitled Love’s Desperate Desire. Based on the cover, I would have called it My… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“A million books’ worth of theoretical knowledge couldn’t equal one direct experience of the self.” — Omar Delawar Copy Share Image
I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair. — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I didn't want my book to be soapy - maybe it's my vanity but I think I can write better than that. — June Brown Copy Share Image
Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“I was taken up by books, as if by the strong arms of a parent I'd never known and had been badly… — Vince Passaro Copy Share Image
Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading. — Tyler Hilton Copy Share Image
