“If I only had one reader in my entire life, that reader would be all that I needed to continue writing.” — Joseph Eastwood Copy Share Image
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is to write the book that you would want to read, and hope… — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Pepys was such a meticulous person that he had little wooden blocks to make all the books on his shelves the same… — David Linley Copy Share Image
I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I had done 12 little romance books, and I decided I wanted to move into crime fiction. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Role models are fine. Roll models are better. Anyone who can do a forward roll is pretty awesome in my book. — Connor Ripley Copy Share Image
“In Paris, Julien’s position with regard to Madame de Renal would very soon have been simplified; but in Paris love is the… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“ recant , v . I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
If your country is wiped off the map and your language is banned, if your literature has to serve a cause, it… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
[Wave of bestselling conservative commentators] it's kind of like reading The Power Of Positive Thinking, or any other advice or how-to book.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“My Caroline, If you’re reading this endnote then I can assume you’ve suffered your way through the story, our story once again.… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
My first audition for 'The Magicians' came up in conversation with a close friend who, right then, handed me the first book. — Hale Appleman Copy Share Image
“...books provided much-needed ballast - something we both craved, amid the chaos and upheaval...” — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“What would you have done, reader, who has been able to follow me like the Magician followed me, invisible and ever-watchful and… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“And thank you for not putting it in your book. And fuck you for not putting it in your book.” — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Teacher: Where is your book? Student: At home. Teacher: What's it doing there? Student: Having more fun than me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
My first attempt at writing a novel was horrible. I had to throw it away. But I stuck with the idea, which… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Reading is a practice; good reading is a highly sophisticated practice. The practice has to be learnt.” — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
Facebook gangster, a books purpose is meant to be read, On Facebook read theses social network books. - Loverboi — Kenneth Melvin Jr Copy Share Image
“I thought about words - like words in books - and how just saying them made things real.” — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
“...if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“It was like she was a master sculptor and my words were the ball of clay in her warm palm. Brunt, Carol… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But I see history as a book with many pages--and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to. — William Landay Copy Share Image
“He swam against the hard current of the class bores - there were three - who could relate every incident in the… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
When my father died in Greece, leaving my mother strapped, a cheque arrived next day from my Greek publishers who'd just bought… — Emma Tennant Copy Share Image
“She used to explain how perfect it was to share books, art, and music. What she meant was don't fall for a… — Sarah Tregay Copy Share Image
![“[Wave of bestselling conservative commentators] it's kind of like reading The Power Of Positive Thinking, or any other advice or how-to book. All they do is reassure people of their basic opinions, and then they can continue to act like they've always acted. I'd say it's time to move on to…” quote by P. J. O'Rourke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c2/p-j-o-rourke-184_advice_wave-of-bestselling-conservative-comment_55176.jpg)
