“In someone's book, you are the unread line; In someone's book, you are the story !!” — TinyMark Twain Copy Share Image
Sometimes novels are considered 'important' in the way medicine is - they taste terrible and are difficult to get down your throat,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Coffee makes you alert, books make you awake. Booze makes you forget life, books bring you to life.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel, — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
For me, marriage should be about partnership. How can you love someone you have to take care of like a child all… — Lynsay Sands Copy Share Image
“A good book is like really loved item at a really good restaurant, every time you go there you order it to… — K.A Cameron Copy Share Image
When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
I appreciate good criticism and I think it's really important. I don't like it when it's consumer advocacy, like how you should… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“In The Gutenberg Elegies, Sven Birkerts laments the loss of “deep reading,” which requires intense concentration, a conscious lowering of the gates… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“No novel is anything, for the purposes either of comedy or tragedy, unless the reader can sympathise with the characters whose names… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
A lot of people consider my books to be straightforward, but I think that I write from atmosphere to atmosphere rather than… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf - 'cause I'd alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something. — Moon Unit Zappa Copy Share Image
“When a man has everything and does not know what more to do, he tries to teach his donkey to talk.” — Asne Seirstad Copy Share Image
Romance is the most read genre of fiction in the world - but people always undermine it. — Nicola Coughlan Copy Share Image
There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the… — Martin Lewis Perl Copy Share Image
My father was a first reader in the Christian Science Church, which is similar to being a preacher. There was no drinking,… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
“Books are the one luxury I deem a necessity. If my purchases lead us into poverty, then at least we will be… — Mark Brownlow Copy Share Image
I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house. — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. Its always a little bittersweet, too. — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
It seems like they make every comic book into a film. 'Watchmen' is my favorite of all time. — William Moseley Copy Share Image
To this day, 'The Duke and I' remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“Flying monkeys exist in literature, Nate,” Kerri said. “Horror writers who get laid exist in literature.” — Edgar Cantero Copy Share Image
There is no law in the world - there is no law unwritten, there's no law on the books - that's gonna… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
My daughter wrote a book called 'Kelly Tough' when she was 19 years old. It's a must-read. — Jim Kelly Copy Share Image
One book is equal to ten friends, but one friend is equal to a library...so, take care of me..:P — Asli Copy Share Image
