I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading. — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we… — John Green Copy Share Image
It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't make someone read. Just like you can't make them fall in love, or dream. — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you… — David Auburn Copy Share Image
Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its… — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
The first time I read a crime novel - I think it may have been an Elmore Leonard book - it took… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
“The book of Ecclesiastes is one of God’s gifts to help us live in the real world. It’s a book in the… — David Gibson Copy Share Image
Once you’re out of the classroom, you might vow never to open another book, after being force-fed their contents for so many… — Cassandra King Copy Share Image
I want to have time. When you're doing a monthly book, you're like a man racing after a bus. You're breathless and… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
“I don't know,' Del said. 'I read this book. I guess you could say we were looking for a better life.' 'Did… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
If I weren't musical, then I would have just published a book, you know? But I'm lucky enough to play piano, and… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, relatively few of my correspondents were of the variety familiar to most authors, the users of block capitals and red ink.” — Gary Sheffield Copy Share Image
You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you. — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep… — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
Read the Bible and inspirational books for a purpose. Ask for divine guidance. Search for the light. — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage… — Newell Dwight Hillis Copy Share Image
“I can read books. I can flow like a river. I can absorb everything that comes my way, good or bad.” — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending… — Rudolf Spielmann Copy Share Image
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“I'm the type of girl who will buy a third copy of the same book just because it is an older edition.” — T.J. Mihaila Copy Share Image
Summer came. For the books thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Already there are too many books in the world. There are more every day. One man cannot hope to read them all.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When I do read, it tends to be serious books like autobiographies and if I've met a famous person, I'll read up… — Graeme Souness Copy Share Image
“If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.” — Murray Pura Copy Share Image
“Memories were as important as books and almost as important as proper indexing.” — Genevieve Cogman Copy Share Image
“There is a book for every walk of life. No matter the age, race, or gender there is something that will appeal… — Carmela Dutra Copy Share Image
I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it. — Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Copy Share Image
I am always concerned with ideas of territory and movement. Indeed, my first book after Bunker Archeology was entitled L'insecurite du territoire (1976). — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
