I'm a big fan of Jamie Oliver, and I've got all of his books. His recipe for peas with white wine and… — Tamzin Outhwaite Copy Share Image
And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“It would be wonderful, she thought, to write a book which would help other people.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page… — Joan Juliet Buck Copy Share Image
The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary,… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“IBM estimates that 90 percent of the world’s data was created in the last two years. As co-authors Rick Smolan and Jennifer… — Robert Scoble Copy Share Image
“It's basically an act of faith, hoping that a small idea will unspool into a bigger whole. Sometimes, in fact often, it… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“The book identifies you as part of the tribe. On the opposite extreme, there are people who will walk up to you… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is only enjoyed by children is… — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image
The goals of literature are multifold, but creating nice, positive protagonists that you'd want to grab drinks with or invite home to… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“Many modern Christians think of the New Testament as a book outside of history, something that was just suddenly there. Historians of… — Jason BeDuhn Copy Share Image
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
“For life is too short to resign ourselves to reading poorly written books and sleeping with women we don't love.” — Anne Garréta Copy Share Image
I've never understood why some people think it's virtuous and essential to finish every book they start. — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
In the end you're not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I always say the next book is my favorite, because without a "next" book, you don't really have a career as a… — Marie Bradby Copy Share Image
“And the book (#7) is for whenever the hunt involves a lot of waiting around. Entertainment that won't eat up my batteries… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
I think it's true to say that in 1973 I could read every book of poems that was published in a year,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
As a writer - and a romance novelist, no less - I've always found it a bit odd when characters in comic… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story. — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
I don't personally like the e-readers they've come up with so far. I don't fetishize books, but I do like that they're… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“After reading a good book, something must change in you! If nothing changed, then you can be sure that you haven't read… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there. — Ursula Nordstrom Copy Share Image
I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Have you ever been heartbroken to finish a book? Has a writer kept whispering in your ear long after the last page… — Elizabeth Maguire Copy Share Image
I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it. — George Meyer Copy Share Image
“Clearly she knew that between book lovers, a novel is not a novel is not a novel. It's a symbol, an offering… — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
“She had given me my first crayons and coloring book, and had held me when I messed up, assuring me that the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Historically speaking, the books I usually connect with the most are written in first-person narrative. — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
