“The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's… — John Gaddis Copy Share Image
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in… — Billy Burke Copy Share Image
(mother)" She used to tell me to get my nose out of my book and go get some fresh air. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“To me it was the ultimate book: once you read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would… — Dai Sijie Copy Share Image
He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The book and the film [This Changes Everything] fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain… — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
It's really hard to teach me anything. I can't read music. I never learned how to read music. I read books about… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
“Because for some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you… — Alexander Kluge Copy Share Image
We got Arbitron diaries at my house in the 1980s, when the family was down to just my mother and me, and… — Hank Stuever Copy Share Image
By about the sixth romance I knew I wasn't in exactly the right place. I liked writing action. And I wanted to… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
If you take all the marketing books in the world and distill them, the key to marketing is hope. People buy hope,… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Her book was filled with centaurs because she had not fully grasped the complexity of actual people, actual horses.” — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“But with each passing year, and each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether… — nick hornby Copy Share Image
The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book. — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
“By reading holy literature as if it were a dream, we gain access to a primary mode of our collective unconscious.” — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
“loathe collectible books anyway. People getting all moony over particular paper carcasses. It’s the ideas that matter, man.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
“Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon that’s one-third of a triathlon (authoring, publishing, and entrepreneuring).” — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
I'm into video games, but only real specific lame video games. In a more traditional nerd sense, I just read lots of… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
With '44 Scotland Street' I found myself having to work out how a daily novel works, and it is completely different to… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented. — John Herschel Copy Share Image
It's an honor, indeed I'm glad, to join in giving a warm reception to a book that has given me many delightful… — Enrique Vila-Matas Copy Share Image
In fact, I was too dumb to save any of the old comic books or the old artwork. I used to give… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me! — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I read Jilly Cooper when I was on the verge of just growing up and I was becoming a woman. — Georgia Toffolo Copy Share Image
I am thrilled when I read about fans using my stories as springboards to read about either the historical characters or the… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
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