I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader. — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books. — Jackie French Copy Share Image
You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending. — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
“After publishing a book, start writing the next. And repeat. Don't get hung up on overmarketing the books, focus more on getting… — Crissi Langwell Copy Share Image
“desire for God’s presence, provision, and protection. No matter where we are, our desire should be for God because only he satisfies… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Gone was the insignificant, defective girl. I was some kind of f**king comic book vigilante & it felt amazing! ” — Ripley Patton Copy Share Image
“The mind of the writer invite readers to new worlds, where their darkest fears and greatest joys explode into a tapestry of… — David Smith Copy Share Image
The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is… — Vance Palmer Copy Share Image
“The store was empty, without a single customer or employee. It appeared in the Internet age, pianos, like physical books, were fast… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I studied English literature at university, but for some reason we only spent one week on [Charles] Dickens, so I remember just… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“I then asked his assistant for a pen, opened up the hardbound edition, and wrote, Zwischen Immer und Nie, for you in… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
One day I'm going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I try to construct each of my novels around one central theme - core tensions shared by the characters. — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I didn't read a ton of teen fiction, and now I feel like I wish that I had. — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do not go… — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not… — Vincent D'Onofrio Copy Share Image
“Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don’t you think?” — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Victoria Roberts spins an exciting Highland tale of intrigue, betrayal, and love with a braw Highland hero and strong English heroine any… — Hannah Howell Copy Share Image
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
You can't think your way to being in love, or able to be loved. However, intellect is also useful for things like… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
Many books are available for teach HOW TO LOVE SOMEONE But a single book is not available for teach HOW TO FORGET… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it,… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“I write with the entire alphabet, not just the popular letters. Readers don't want to lose themselves in the text. They want… — Mark R. Trost Copy Share Image
“Author note re: Torn (Book #2)..."There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice!" ~ F.… — Kim Karr Copy Share Image
“Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, a book that offers an entertaining and engaging overview of behavioral economics.” — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence. — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
“Legendary comic book storyteller Will Eisner put it this way: "Technique is secondary. Technique comes as a result of how you do… — Brian McDonald Copy Share Image
“How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“But there is much that cannot go into books, and that is the loss with which I become increasingly concerned.” — John Williams Copy Share Image
“A word to the unwise. Torch every book. Char every page. Burn every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image