“Was there anything more wonderful than sending someone home with a book you loved? No, there was not.” — Kylie Scott Copy Share Image
“I write science fiction because that is what publishers call my books. Left to myself, I should call them novels.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Ring sense is an art, a gift from God that flows out of a fighter like a great painting flows out of… — Ray Arcel Copy Share Image
“CUSTOMER: Do you have this children's book I've heard about? It's supposed to be very good. It's called "Lionel Richie and the… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages. — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I figured I could read more than five pages tonight since I'd been deprived for the last couple of days. When I… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Read day and night, devour books—these sleeping pills—not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Elio: What were you doing? Oliver: Thinking. Elio: About? Oliver: Things. Going back to the States. The courses I have to teach… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
If you want to write, do two things - read lots of books and also, in your own writing, practise. Just write… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Books don’t change the world, people change the world, books only change people. — Mario Quintana Copy Share Image
“If one faces facts one must admit that nearly everything describable as Socialist literature is dull, tasteless, and bad” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“set of ABBOTT'S NAPOLEON histories. They were all presentation copies from the author, with autograph inscriptions. The regret expressed” — Various Copy Share Image
I'd love to write a book called 'How to Raise a Virgin.' Seriously, I think a book about that would sell. — Bert Kreischer Copy Share Image
God doesn't author hardship but uses it to strengthen us for greater conquests. He never leads us into a storm that He… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
The book itself [The Thorn and The Blossom] is bound accordion-style: it has no spine, so it can open in either direction,… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“So let me emphasize the important thing: there’s no cognitive difference in reading a sentence in a print book versus a digital… — Jason Merkoski Copy Share Image
“when people don’t have free access to books, then communities are like radios without batteries.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers. — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I lived my life with alot of sin... I flip though the chapters of my f*$ed up past... I jus ripped tha… — CTate Copy Share Image
“No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally worth reading at the age of 50.” — Gladys Hunt Copy Share Image
A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author. — Stephen C Johnson Copy Share Image
Keep reading books, stay in school. I encourage kids to read as much as they can, I challenge you to read a… — Alex Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“The only way you can be saturated with the thoughts of Christ is to saturate yourself with the Book that is all… — John F. MacArthur Jr Copy Share Image
In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“I have read the Bible, it has a lot of different interpretations. It is a book of codes.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world. — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device. — Joe Sabia Copy Share Image
I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick; I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image