“School exams are memory tests, in real-world no one is going to stop you from referring a book to solve a problem.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked. — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
“Broken Porzelan is one of the best books I have read in a long time. I highly recommend it to anyone.” — Katie Katharina Kramer Bering Copy Share Image
My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I… — Ina Coolbrith Copy Share Image
When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink. — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy. — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
“It was as if I'd been in the middle of a book that I had to put down when I got too… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
The problem with most of the want-to-be authors is that they are unable to focus. Either they have no idea of where… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka Copy Share Image
I love e-books. I can carry the complete works of William Shakespeare around with me all the time. Just think about that.… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“I was in the book, and the book was in my head, and as long as I stayed inside my head, I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Professor Flitwick, the Charms teacher, was a tiny little wizard who had to stand on a pile of books to see over… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Sometime in the early 1920s, Keynes outlined a book he planned to call “Essays on the Economic Future of the World” (figure… — David Roth Singerman Copy Share Image
Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Our goal is not to finish a book, or merely to talk about a book, but to use our books to grow… — Tony Reinke Copy Share Image
'Talking Peace' is one of the few books from childhood that I still keep prominently displayed on my bookshelf. — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
Belief in great results is the driving force, the power behind all great books, plays, scientific discoveries. — David Joseph Schwartz Copy Share Image
When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.' — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Life is like a Book of 3 Pages. 1st page is Birth And Last page is Death . Centre page is Empty… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I've heard a lot of editors and agents say, "If the book is good, it will get published." I totally disagree with… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
If you're interested in a book that will steadily grow and sell for a very long time, I promise you I will… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
“This book began with a vision I received one night planning a lesson for my Sunday school class at Family Ties at… — Bryant Cornett Copy Share Image
A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
“The editor wants something a little more oblique, a little less opaque. Let the reader watch you / dissolve.” — Aaron Kent Copy Share Image
It's nice being married to someone who likes to read because you can indulge in geeky conversations about books. — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
