That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“This first book’s for everyone, though almost no one wants it or would know how to read it.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“…Read…packaged food labels like they’re the hottest thing from Oprah’s book club.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My agent will say, 'Well, it's another graphic novel.' I don't care. It's better writing than anything else that's out there. The… — Jeffrey Dean Morgan Copy Share Image
I want to always be viewed by my readers as a friend and not as an authority or an expert. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young. — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
“Any writer who waits for inspiration to strike will never finish a book. Inspiration is all very well but it will never… — Barbara Michaels Copy Share Image
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“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take,… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“After this, Boy became very curious about the mansion where the clothes and the food came from. He made me describe everything.… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A lot of attention has been paid in Latin America to the new generation of nonfiction writers, authors like Julio Villanueva Chang,… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
I really don't watch enough TV to know about the impact. In my experience as a TV writer, I would say is… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
“The sharing of a book is a statement—a message of affection that is also an act of self-revelation. Join my club, it… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“All events/actions create a potential energy that rotate around the doer until releases or neutralized. (From Circles of Reasoning book)” — Reza Assadi Copy Share Image
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I… — Adam Foulds Copy Share Image
It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer. — Manju Kapur Copy Share Image
I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut. — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
His eyes gravitated towards the wall-to-wall bookshelf at one end of the room. 'You folks like books, I see. — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
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The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor. — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” ― George R.R. Martin,… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I started my work on a lot of the 'Batman' books. So I've worked on a 'Batman,' 'Spider-Man,' some of the 'X-Men'… — Brian Stelfreeze Copy Share Image
What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading. — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs. — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm on a book tour, one of the questions I always get asked is what to wear to various occasions. — Nina Garcia Copy Share Image
You do not have to protect people's pocket books. They'll do a better job of that than you will. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I feel like my life is pretty much on display. So much of it is working, and that's really all I want… — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
“I believe that being able to communicate directly with readers is a boon. I certainly enjoy it as much as they do.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The world must be all fucked up,’ he said then, ‘when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.’ That was… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
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