A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work. — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“Reading without thinking is nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“Jaimie loved the dictionary even more than the television because it is the one book that contains all others.” — Robert Chazz Chute Copy Share Image
“She is certainly a world renowned author today and she is said to have a net worth more than that of the… — Kevin Johnson Copy Share Image
“The Book of the Order lay open on his desk, the pages curling up from a spine stitched to last.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Photographs have always been the tar baby of censors and obscenity laws. Literature can certainly (if it's any good) conjure up the… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
“He recognized her deft hand and eye for detail immediately. He flipped through the pages, past vignettes of the dairymaid and her… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence.… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I think that it's important for people to read philosophy and literature is not because I think everyone should be a well-rounded… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The first bowl sleekly moistened throat and lips, The second banished all my loneliness The third expelled the dullness from my mind,… — Lu Tong Copy Share Image
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading. — Alice James Copy Share Image
Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore? — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
“I am working on two new non-fiction ebooks for publication in January and February 2018.” — Lawrence E. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I have a book of poetry I believe many should read but in each verse you'll discover it wasn't written for greed.” — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“Life is a book that someone else is reading—and you, a key character—hence the need for continual conflict and resolution. We can't… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Your life is a novel, every day is a page, and you have the power to make the story beautiful and go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“One may never get to know how fast the time travels till the one gets in that position to race against the… — Neel Preet Copy Share Image
I read Eve Ensler and thought it was fabulous. Not only that, but it was really the only thing I could relate… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write. — Jennifer Rowe Copy Share Image
I discover methods for myself and then read books that describe 'my' method. This leads me to believe that the creative well… — Gene Black Copy Share Image
Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests. — Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada Copy Share Image
We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign. — Loretta Lynn Copy Share Image
“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
People without curiosity are like houses without books: there's something unsettling about them. — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
My library is segregated into philosophy, history, general reading, travel, my own books... and only three cookbooks. — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
