“A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.” — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
I always travel with one book. I'll read it and then leave it for someone else, and take another book. — Patrick J. Adams Copy Share Image
to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
All of my books really do look at that to degrees of difference. Technically, I do enjoy the flashback! But not just… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“The reader is entertained by the journey of another, but the writer is the changer of worlds.” — Rand Miller Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I read both in French and English and often a couple of books at once, mixing fiction and non-fiction. — Pauline Chalamet Copy Share Image
While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm pretty omnivorous - in fact, I don't think of books in terms of genres. J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' books are… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
I didn't read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs'… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
So before I start work on a book, I'm like a pregnant mole - I obsessively tidy and order my closets and… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past.… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
“Marriages are like certain books, a story where you turn the last page and you think it's over and then there's an… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“Some swore the cats had been caught pawing through the pages of open books - reading.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of the book and Stephen King is one of my big heroes, literary heroes, and I am a… — Andy Muschietti Copy Share Image
My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
I'm not really a reader, but every Thursday and Friday I read my Boxing News. I read the papers every day, but… — James DeGale Copy Share Image
I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
The only complete reading is that which transforms the book into a simultaneous network of reciprocal relations. — Jean Rousset Copy Share Image
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The strength of your book is your conflict. For many writers that sentence should read, “The strength of your book is your… — Debra Dixon Copy Share Image
If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
When I have the Bible memorised, then I'll be able to go and read a couple other books. — Stephen Baldwin Copy Share Image
I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
The really cool thing about when you're playing a comic book character is that no one knows what he sounds like. — Josh McDermitt Copy Share Image
I didn't read much in high school, maybe because I didn't go to high school. Instead, I worked. — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
Poor kid,' Jenna says, and rolls her eyes toward me for a moment. Then she returns to her book. 'She doesn't even… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
The best book I read in 2007 was Stoner by John Williams. It’s perhaps the best book I’ve read in years. — Stephen Elliott Copy Share Image
You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your… — Dhani Harrison Copy Share Image
“Books have a publishing standard, and every Indie Author is responsible to their readers in making sure those standards are met or… — Eeva Lancaster Copy Share Image
Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation between a man of sense… — Earl Of Chesterfield Copy Share Image
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