Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As Don Everts says in his book Jesus with Dirty Feet, “Referring to the church as a building is like referring to… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“A writer must write from the heart, that is the only way that for readers to see the passion of our work.” — Cornelius D. Jones Copy Share Image
“decide which target prospects to pursue and build a book of business from scratch.” — Mike Weinberg Copy Share Image
I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Write what you know. Write what you can't forget. Write to give yourself courage and others hope.” — Nikki Rosen Copy Share Image
“But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.” — John Williams Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
“ON THE RETURN OF A BOOK LENT TO A FRIEND I GIVE humble and hearty thanks for the safe return of this… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“I never knew you played the banjo!" cried Harris and I, in one breath. "Not exactly," replied George: "but it's very easy,… — Jerome K Jerome Copy Share Image
An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have… — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
You need to give the reader a reason to turn the page. In a diary, you are just yourself. You aren't trying… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
My first two novels featured narrators who were aggressively unattached: They couldn't form any sort of genuine relationship. So I had thoroughly… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Painting is a feeling, Never spoil it. Face is a book, try to read it. Love is precious, Be ready to sacrifice… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“Using the comma well announces that you have an ear for sense and rhythm, confidence in your style and a proper respect… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a radio thing that's narrative, it's quite nice to stop for an hour and write a load of garbage… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“You feel like if they just read the manual first ... If we had a manual, that is.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“I look back now with amazement at the small accidents that put certain books before me.” — Vince Passaro Copy Share Image
“The trick isn’t to simply publish a book; the trick is to produce a quality book package to surround the book’s content” — hank quense Copy Share Image
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
If you see our best seller list, most of them are books that are given as gifts. They are books you give… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
“How and where authors connect with their readers will affect how and when readers buy.” — Bernadette Baker-Baughman Copy Share Image
The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“but a book that did what books always promised to do and never actually quite did: get you out, really out, of… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I think it's important to find projects that evoke people into conversation. It's like reading a good book. You want to talk… — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
“I'd curl up with a good romance book with my current book boyfriend and pretend the real world didn't exist for a… — Jen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“There are lessons to be learned from history — but generally those lessons are only known to those who read books, not… — Brian Dunning Copy Share Image
“The future is not like a book one can read,” he said quietly. “It is ever changing, like the rush of water,… — Christie Golden Copy Share Image
You make up your mind what part you want to read for and why. It's kept me focused - on what's important,… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“We’d each roll to our side of the bed and let our own savior take us away. Soraya’s was sleep. Mine, as… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Never loan a book. You might never get it back in the same condition that you loaned it.” — Monique Gordon Copy Share Image
