Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read. — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it. — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I love anything by Deb Caletti. She's my absolute favorite young adult author. I love Ally Carter as well. — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
Books and movies are kind of my two great loves. I don't have too many other actual hobbies. That's pretty much it. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd write one book, let alone three. I'm absolutely delighted and every night, thank the good lord for spell… — Peter Kay Copy Share Image
I really need so much time to really make headway on a novel that requires me to disappear from the world in… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
The book that made me decide to go into Russian literature was 'Anna Karenina,' which I first read in high school. The… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Patti Callahan Henry’s THE STORIES WE TELL is a lyrical exploration of love and longing, secrets and suspicion, family and friendship, all… — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if… — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
There's a room in my house where my stereo, records, CDs, and books are housed. I spend a lot of time in… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices… The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one’s adult enjoyment of what are called ‘children’s books’. I think… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and… — Jonathan Hickman Copy Share Image
The sound of words in a novel is a pretty amazing thing, and I am concerned with the sound of every word… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“In my own book-signings, I find humility. It’s always humbling when people go out of their way to come visit with me… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Vereker's secret, my dear man - the general intention of his books: the string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I received so many positive comments about the quotes that I decided to continue to use them in my novels. — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
“Go on down to the local palm reader, she'll spit out exactly what you feed her because honey, you already knew your… — Casey Renee Kiser Copy Share Image
We are the authors of our destinies. No one can see the vision any clearer, believe in and work any harder to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By making time to read, like making time to love, we expand our time for living. — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
I Want A Million Dollars A Year For Illegally Having My Mind Read And Privacy Stolen — Amanda Bynes Copy Share Image
The Web or card experience is not at all going to replicate the book experience, nor is the book experience going to… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing. — James Thayer Copy Share Image
I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
“Read the right books. Learn how those who have preceded you have handled the challenges you are currently facing.” — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“People can’t read a book if they don’t know it exists. All authors need to do marketing, regardless of how they published.” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program. — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage. — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, 'Oh, I have this comic… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
“I can read people like an open book, especially if their named Braille, and I’m in a touchy-feely mood.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors. — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
