Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
The road that led me to literature was very different from the one followed by my fellow writers in Poland. — Marek Hlasko Copy Share Image
I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos. — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
Quite often in comic book movies, very good actresses are relegated to being the girlfriend or the helper or the sidekick or… — Paul Dini Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer that sci-fi lives in literature, that the true sci-fi population is out there reading a gazillion authors. — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come. — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“She's finding out she don't know much, and that's gonna make her feel lost for a spell. All her book smarts is… — Leah Weiss Copy Share Image
Authors don't tend to stay with the same agents and editors over their entire lifetimes, but Grafton worked with Marian Wood, her… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“Have you seen one of those fat books on ‘Good Parenting’? Well, it’s a good thing that these books are fat! Because,… — Rachna Singh Copy Share Image
Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff inside doesn't change.… — Kathryn Erskine Copy Share Image
Sure, kids want to read whatever is the hot book, and of course they want to read fantasy and any kind of… — Sofia Quintero Copy Share Image
“Men may congratulate themselves for writing truly and passionately about the movements of nations; they may consider war and the search for… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
In many cases, the line between a thriller and a crime novel has become too blurred to be useful. — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Iv invented a monster and now its overtaking me. This is what iv come to and this is what I will be… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and… — Ben Ames Williams Copy Share Image
Doing simple flip books, I used to get such a kick out of it, just drawings and nothing else. — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock. — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel. — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Richard Barager has written THE novel of the Sixties - a passion-filled, pitch-perfect, roller coaster of a tale about the decade that… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Teacher: Please go to page 364 in your text book. Random kid in the back: HOLY CRAP I JUSTFLIPPED RIGHT TO THAT… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see.” — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
I learn that life is a book, every day is a new page, every month is a new chapter and every year… — Enhance Dreams Copy Share Image
On my first days here I did not start work immediately but, as planned, I took it easy for a few days… — Gustav Klimt Copy Share Image
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books. Not everybody has to do it. — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
“Warish Shah I call out to you, Rise from your grave, speak out and turn, Another page of the Book of Love” — Amrita Pritam Copy Share Image
“In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe… — Rachel Hall Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know, this is a good book, how come no one is paying attention to… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“To read is to humble yourself to learn and to love yourself to be entertained.” — Miranda A. Uyeh Copy Share Image
