My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Every time I have a bad day, I'll just find a corner, bring out my book and then everything starts to feel… — Wency June Z. Libot Copy Share Image
Why want the guy in the book? There just made belife and fake. Want the real guy — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The actual materials are important... A book at the nightstand is important-a light you can get at-or a flashlight as Kerouac had… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“My true passion has always been to use my status as an author to make a positive impact.” — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
'The New 52,' I was really excited that new people got to jump in on books. In particular, on 'Aqua Man.' — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“From ... the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. ... I… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As I write in the book, I do not regret either of my votes for President [Barack] Obama, nor my support of… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
“In books I mee the dead as if they were alive, in books I see what is yet to come... All things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So while I dedicated this book to myself, it’s also dedicated to you. Male or female, young or old, if you’re reading… — Meagan Spooner Copy Share Image
“The book was sloppily written in many parts (the words came too quickly and too easily) and there was hardly a noun… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“The library drew Bean down the street, as it had drawn all of us over the years. Our parents had trained us… — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I like to read non-fiction on my e-reader, but as for fiction, I usually like to have a copy to keep at… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
I like the idea that things can exist in different formats - in a gallery, a fashion ad, in books. — Juergen Teller Copy Share Image
“If a person reads a good book—they become permanently changed. They can’t even help it. They can’t unlearn what they’ve learned. It… — Loretta Lost Copy Share Image
But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods. — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book? — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
“But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book is a fortress, a place of weeping, the key to a desert,… — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in… — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby. — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I had the offer to write books plenty of times during the early stage of my career, and I always kind of… — Tim Howard Copy Share Image
Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
“La vida es un libro en blanco y negro y nosotros salimos a llenar unas hojas" Life is a book in white… — Herman Zapp Copy Share Image
I want my readers to be disturbed. I want them to ask, 'Could this really happen?' It is my job to think… — Lois Tilton Copy Share Image
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Is literature better, is politics better, for having discarded the moralist and the philosopher?” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his readers to believe it.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image