“But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Because reality has no authority there. My imagination controls everything.” — Samantha Young Copy Share Image
Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them. — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
Studying means: to text, to eat and to watch TV with an open book neatby. — Michael Angelo De Leon Copy Share Image
I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Life without Music would be a Mistake. Life without Books would be Catastrophic!” — Nandini Deka Copy Share Image
Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Why waste the space on a stack of half-read books and periodicals, when you could turn your nightstand into a tactical toolbox?” — Clint Emerson Copy Share Image
“I don’t think I like American inventions [...] I am quite sure I don’t. I read some American novels lately, and they… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“IF you wish to be a writer then don't wait until you write the "great American novel" for they aren't written they… — Shiree Mccarver Copy Share Image
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Since 2001, I've done what every elected official should be doing in government right now. My staff and I took a look… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
“I have a handful of prayers that I pray all the time... One is that God will put my books into the… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
“They both fell silent. For a while the only sound they could hear was the noise of books resting on shelves, which… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
“It is, incidentally, a favour that e-books have done for the Good Bookshop: they have made books beautiful again. A few years… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image