“I am an open book. It would be best if you only read my pages. Be careful when reading between the lines… — Jeffrey G. Duarte Copy Share Image
A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the 'Redwall' books. — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
Music and books, I think, were the two things I trusted the most as a child - songs and books. — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
“I know all about you from your books,' she said. 'But in spite of that you're still a riddle to me.' Have… — Maxim Biller Copy Share Image
When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now? — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
I never talk about books in progress. I could decide to change it to a series of seafood recipes, after all. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it.” — Paul Leicester Ford Copy Share Image
Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either.… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Right now, anyone who is offended about anything--whether it's the fact that a book about racism was assigned in a university class,… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“This book has nothing to do with cats. Or mice. Or self-motivation. This book is 100% 50% finished. But don’t worry, I… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I'm easily persuaded that a really good novelist who gets inside somebody else's head could be serving a valuable purpose. I enjoy… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“She didn't really enjoy reading but she liked how the books were clues. Each one a piece in a puzzle. Even when… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is a gift, being an author is amazing, becoming a best seller is everyone's dream” — LaQuita Cameron Copy Share Image
Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
I don't have any sense or urgency about any of my writing, actually. I don't think mankind will be damaged if I… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
“All world believers of righteousness are required to pladge allegiance to Allah!” — Compton Gage Copy Share Image
I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least… — Mark O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had not read George Eliot, so read a few. I felt ashamed I hadn't read "Middlemarch" before. — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“At least in a book I am away from my body for a while. But I want to do things, not just… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I could write a book describing what differentiates the high performance person from all the rest! Hell, I could write volumes! — Dan Pena Copy Share Image
Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected… — Rabindranath Maharaj Copy Share Image
I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. - Jim Rohn, Author” — Lorne Holden Copy Share Image
“Cut back on your rent or cut back on what you spend on food but never worry about investing money in a… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
The book says we may be through with the past but the past ain't through with us. — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
If your creed and Scripture do not agree, cut your creed to pieces, but make it agree with this book. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Destiny is like a book. It needs manufacturing, the pulp process, the glue fixed tightly--and it requires a binding, to hold it… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
