Books can be a source of solace, but I see them mainly as a source of pleasure, personal as well as esthetic. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“Why does everyone think a girl who prefers books to people must be in want of a life?” — Lauren Morrill Copy Share Image
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If our love was a story book We would meet on the very first page The last chapter would be about How… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'll never be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand as if a man were author to himself and knew no… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give… — Mel Torme Copy Share Image
There's really no rule book for how you end a relationship, so I would often feel really bad afterwards. I never wanted… — Becca Kufrin Copy Share Image
Only one hour in a day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep,… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Most of the books that I've written have been focused on, sort of, the individual, and sort of, either a voice, a… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Everything is in constant mutation, expanding and contracting. All we hear, see or think is a projection of our own…or someone else’s… — Ana Rangel & Gerry O'malley Copy Share Image
I was a huge rereader, so I've read all the Chronicles of Narnia, at minimum, 13 times each. In reading that series,… — Lisa Papademetriou Copy Share Image
I should like to use another word: 'audience' or 'reader' or 'listener' seems inadequate. I suggest the old word 'witness,' which includes… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“No one can sing well, play well, or write well, without living through moments of the deepest pain and anguish. Every real… — Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Copy Share Image
It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
With my stuff, I think I've tried. I've been courted. I don't want to sound like an asshole, but I've been courted… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
“Try reading a book while doing a crossword puzzle; that’s the intellectual environment of the Internet. BACK” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“ Angels are all around us, all the time, in the very air we breathe. -Eileen Elias Freeman, The Angels’ Little Instruction Book” — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
In many ways, Bengalis and Marathis happen to be very similar. Both love theatre, literature and seafood. — Mahesh Manjrekar Copy Share Image
I create doubt in the reader's mind. That is what literature is for: to provoke, to raise doubts, to talk about things… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.” — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“Every good story needs a good ending. Don't write the beginning of a novel without knowing the end of it.” — A.D.Y. Howle Copy Share Image
The person, be it lady or gentlemen who has not pleasure in a good book must be intoleranlty stupid. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I'm really into reading books right now about India. You reach a certain age where you start missing your home history. — Sacha Dhawan Copy Share Image
Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality. — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
“Do not ask intelligent rich people what car they driver, but what books they read.” — Alin Sav Copy Share Image
“As outsiders looking in, my readers and I must reform how we think so we may open ourselves to new forms of… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
“For writers, handing a manuscript off to an editor is like walking into a parole hearing. You’ve done the time but wonder… — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about.”… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“How'd you get this number?" "Well, you see, there's this book. It has white pages. And it has all these phone numbers… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years. — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
“If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody. — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
