Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“You can tell a lot about people from the kind of books they steal.” — Bella Bathurst Copy Share Image
“There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Usually we're on the same page. Other times I'm in a whole other book" ~ Arika Wolly” — Arika Wolly Copy Share Image
I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The problem with writing a book about bulimia is that whenever you go to the washroom, people think you're throwing up. — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
If you really want a prize, or if you really want applause, you should try to write as many books as humanly… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
A fine book, in the perfect setting, when there's all the time in the world to read it: Life holds greater joys,… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject… — Brian Crozier Copy Share Image
“The stories in this book link an ancient story with the children's stories. Rather than medical case reports based on certainty of… — Diane M. Komp - Pediatric Oncologist Copy Share Image
There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread… — Zilpha Keatley Snyder Copy Share Image
Kids at her school will sidle up to me and say, 'Does Jessica know what happens in book 4? Does Jessica know… — J K Rowling Copy Share Image
Unlike the authors of such warrior classics as The Art of War and The Book of the Five Rings, which accept the… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
'The Odyssey' is a great poem to refugee-dom... Odysseus is not entirely a refugee... he's somebody who's blown off course. The entire… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
