When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“i am against electronic books. they make real books obsolete, denying the poor and economically challenged freedom.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“Everything before the written word was pre-text. From my book previously feared darkness” — Robert Priest Copy Share Image
One reviewer dubbed my first book, 'Getting Rid of Matthew,' 'chick noir,' and another called it 'anti chick lit,' both of which… — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery. — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Read books and keep informed. The conversation can get old if you don't have some good new topics to bring to the… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? Who asked him… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Empire of Deception is a sure thing--a book guaranteed to entertain and make you rich (in knowledge, that is). Dean Jobb has… — Jonathan Eig Copy Share Image
I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I suppose that there are many novels that are set during the summer because it's a lonely time of year. Friends come… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I'm strictly a one-project-at-a-time kind of guy. If I came up with a compelling idea for a different book while working on… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The most enjoyable part in writing a series is being able to visit a world I have created and revisit old friends.… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
I want my students to love to read. Reading is not a subject. Reading is a foundation of life, an activity that… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I am so excited about the 'Goosebumps' movie; I am geeking out. I was a huge fan of the books. — Jillian Bell Copy Share Image
“I tried to write a coming of age novel, but I wasn't deep enough to get past the third chapter.” — Rick Robinson Copy Share Image
My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I don't think I could have - and I wouldn't have wanted to - write a book about climate change that wasn't… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
“What you produce as a writer is art. A voice that opens a vein and leaves the reader lapping at the blood… — H.N. Sieverding Copy Share Image
The real world is cruel, but in the comfort of literature it can bring some light. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“The problem lies not with the characters within the novel, but with the reader itself.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The women in my family were hardworking matriarchs. But the stories I saw on TV and movies and even in many books… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
I've got my own philosophy. People who write books have different philosophies. You read too many people and you get screwed up. — George Blanda Copy Share Image
Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book. — Hansie Cronje Copy Share Image
“Reader one moment stop and think, That I am in eternity and you are on the brink.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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