“I believed in all the things written within me, I’d just somehow along the way stopped believing in my book jacket.” — Samantha Young Copy Share Image
Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water. — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“We want books that are written for those of us who doubt everything, who cry over the least little thing, who are… — Laurence Cossé Copy Share Image
I feel like, in a lot of ways, 'Hidden Figures' is the book that I wrote and have been waiting to read… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
“I did not want passion, I did not want pleasure. Perhaps I didn’t even want proof. And I did not want words,… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make… — Drew Houston Copy Share Image
“A novel works it's magic by putting a reader inside another person's life. The pace is as slow as life. It's as… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Now, almost twenty years since my last job in book publishing, I know that there are far more socially inept people in… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
People put clips of me up. There are quotes from me. I've written books, of course. I'm on Twitter. There are dozens… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“only had to write the play that I was already thinking of. Plays are much easier to write than books, because you… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
This book blew me away. Kelly Parra writes with the keen eye of an artist. Graffiti Girl is warm, gutsy, and true-to-life… — Anne Frasier Copy Share Image
“Keep thinking back about what Mum said about being real and the Velveteen Rabbit book (though frankly have had enough trouble with… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the… — Rikki Ducornet Copy Share Image
“No holy book is more inspired than the other. They are all inspired according to their gods.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
In every John Waters book, you're like: 'Wait, how can this guy be so funny in a... book?' It's like you can… — Sarah Sherman Copy Share Image
'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I published my first book, 'Drinking & Tweeting,' when I first started 'Housewives' and was being portrayed as a fun girl who… — Brandi Glanville Copy Share Image
At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make… — Louis Garrel Copy Share Image
So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't. — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really,… — Jessica Pare Copy Share Image
Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself... — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
I had been offered a six-figure deal to write two cookery books. Six figures, at just 23. — John Whaite Copy Share Image
“I like this book and I especially like the title. Only a fool or a whore would call it anything else.” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Unless a writer's capable of solitude, he should leave books alone and go into the theater.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“superb book Mercia and the Making of England (Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 2000).” — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own. — Terry Southern Copy Share Image
“I don't know whether I could do either one, reading or writing, without the other” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“He gets every vote who combines the useful with the pleasant, and who, at the same time he pleases the reader, also… — Horace Copy Share Image
I love movies, but I would love to write as many graphic novels as people would read from me. — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
I think music, like writing, can be a mirror. Can turn back onto the listener, the viewer, the reader, an experience that… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
