The Book of Mormon is the "keystone" of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the capstone, with continuing latter-day revelation. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“That’s why people require travel books on the 1960s, I thought. They want to go there. They want to feel that sun… — Roger Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
“Everyone carries a story which can be a best selling novel, it’s just a matter of penning down your feelings on papers.” — Sohil Ashvin Shah Copy Share Image
Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
When I started working on 'Stay With Me,' I thought it would take two years to complete the novel. — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I remember, when I was a child and wrote poems in little clasped books, I used to kiss the books and put… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are… — George Weah Copy Share Image
It's difficult to explain love. You want to explain water? You need a book for it. There are many different ways to… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
“I am working on a new book about a boa constrictor and a litter of hyenas. The boa constrictor swallows the babies… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
“Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, as I contemplate the drivel on the… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Writing a novel was like I had some Play-Doh to work with and could just keep working with it - doing a… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“I cannot help that readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness. — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
“use His tricks for our purposes. In his book, The Abolition of Man, C.S Lewis grasped this phenomenon with uncanny insight, writing:” — Bō Jinn Copy Share Image
"Chocolate mustache" is from a line in the book. It's my favorite title (chosen by me), so I'm pleased that Never Spit… — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world. — Adeline Yen Mah Copy Share Image
“If I accept that a book must end, I will finish it tonight. What I am doing now is to postpone this… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A visit to a bookshop will be a difficult one if you're looking for any picture book in print that is more… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
It was a startling task to undertake, for the Book of Mormon had never been illustrated before, at least on any professional… — Arnold Friberg Copy Share Image
I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books. — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports? — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
“Every word, every sentence, every poem and every chapter of a book I have written came from the bottom of my heart,… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
A free book that comes to my house full of nothing but women in their underwear? God Bless America! — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
I got this book called 'How to Write the Popular Song.' I read that and went through all the things they suggested,… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
“You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson. But sometimes it's difficult to… — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
“A new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You are a reader, not a cheerleader" (from interview at Lilies and Cannonballs Review)” — Inigo Garcia Ureta Copy Share Image
I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
