“Was there anything more wonderful than sending someone home with a book you loved? No, there was not.” — Kylie Scott Copy Share Image
“I write science fiction because that is what publishers call my books. Left to myself, I should call them novels.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“He was just a reader and readers can't do anything to make a story stop - except close the book.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
“We have written too many books about love and so few about hunger and poverty; that is why we need to wake… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
I've been collecting comics since I was 10 years old. One of the first books I ever got my hands on was… — Joe Russo Copy Share Image
Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
If any reader has lost a loved one or is afraid of death, modern physics says: 'Be comforted, you and they shall… — Frank Tipler Copy Share Image
I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me,… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
“Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours. Who would we be if… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Long novels written today are perhaps a contradiction: the dimension of time has been shattered, we cannot love or think except in… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“To get a true sense of the book, I have to spend a few moments inside. I'll glance at the first couple… — Amy Krouse Rosenthal Copy Share Image
At one point I took a copy of Berkeley's Principles from my father's library. That was the first philosophy book I read.… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.'… — Morris Hite Copy Share Image
“Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can take from the world… — Franklin Rosemont Copy Share Image
“A long time ago, I opened a book, and this is what I found inside: a whole new world. It isn't the… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
' Torn' is hopeful. It's a book that meets you in your pain and shows you how to move forward with life… — Jud Wilhite Copy Share Image
When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand… — Betsy Byars Copy Share Image
When I talk to booksellers, they tell me how hard it is to hand-sell some of my books because I do keep… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I've learned that certain things are much harder than when you write about them in a book. — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
You wouldn't try and make a cake without a recipe book. Careers are just the same. — Esther McVey Copy Share Image
I sometimes pretend that I have insomnia when what I really have is a good book and an inadequate respect for tomorrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call… — Nicola Morgan Copy Share Image
Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something… — Kelly Wearstler Copy Share Image
My readers are 90 percent gay, and it's who I write for. I am not here to entertain straight people. — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
“from within a book you can select Share from the secondary toolbar and enter a message and share it with your social… — amazon Copy Share Image
The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“All the grief I had kept at bay for years by means of books and bookcases approached me now.” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Other books we may read and criticise. To the Scriptures we must bow the entire soul, with all its faculties. — Edward Norris Kirk Copy Share Image
“You cannot buy our leaders and then sell that to us as freedom." From my new novel, Beyond Southern Africa. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view... ” — Malik Stan Reaves Copy Share Image
“We really are little book whores,aren't we?Not just in the number of books that we read,but the number of guys we are… — Erin Noelle Copy Share Image
The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
I came to America when I was seven and a half in 91. I think the first full length book in English… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image