Books aren’t just my defenses, the sandbags I use to fortify my position; they are also the building blocks of my soul,… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do. — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
“My favorite daydream, it was this: I would be reading a book alone in my room, and no one would ever, ever… — Ann Tyler Copy Share Image
I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent. — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodkahoney.” — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I have received emails from readers who have said that they were emotionally impacted by the books, and they feel they are… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
“A garden path,' write the landscape architects Charles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell, and William Turnbull, 'can become the thread of a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
There are a lot of books about how to get organized and a lot of books about how to be better and… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“We must be more than a nation of functional literates. We must become a nation of truly competent readers, recognizing all that… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“We're going on a bit too fast. You and I, Sam, are still stuck in the worst places of the story, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“This was his favorite time of day, reading to his heart's content before going to sleep. When he tired of reading, he… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As a lifelong romance reader, its always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers! — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
I am influenced by books which dont have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“READING, beaming up into books" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 167” — Rodman Philbrick Copy Share Image
Most of Broadway is based on a movie or a book. You don't see many original musicals. — David Bryan Copy Share Image
Everything can draw inspiration: a vintage cloth, a book, a street-when I was in Japan, I was deeply inspired by Japanese pharmacies. — Renzo Rosso Copy Share Image
I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“God, remember when we defeated Goliath, when we pastured sheep or we threw, in vain, the nets, and You chose us." FROM… — Roberto Ornan Roche Copy Share Image
Every book changes my writing because I'm always trying to do something I didn't do before. I try to do what's hard… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Seest thou not those who change Allah's favor for disbelief and make their people to alight in the abode of perdition-” — Compton Gage Copy Share Image
“ Programs has a temporary results leading to nothingness, and the Gospel the brings the result of Eternal life.” — Tommie Scott Copy Share Image
Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need… — Glenda Millard Copy Share Image
With most of my books, there are some parts that pop up right away, and other parts I have to wait for. — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
My mama loved books; I became fascinated by the wonderful stories that came out of these things she held in her hand… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
“I plan on leaving my mark on this world, in ink, with a pen spill that’ll make all the oil spills combined… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I love books. I want to read them, and I want to own them so they're always available to be reread. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
“Books are everything; Refreshing and amazing. What would a world have to be, without something to read?” — Mikaylah Hansen Copy Share Image
“All I ask of life, he says, is a bunch of books, a bunch of dreams, and a bunch of cunt.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Never write anything that does not move you or give you pleasure. Emotion is then transferred from the writer to the reader.” — Massimo Marino Copy Share Image
