I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to… — Catherine Mayer Copy Share Image
I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always… — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not. — Horace Copy Share Image
“If you can read, there is no worldly wisdom that cannot be gathered from the pages of a book.” — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.” — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And found there one of those huge comprehensive anthologies of literature, the sort of thing which, on a bad day, can induce… — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
“All right, then,” she snapped, “do as you please! Perhaps afterward we could manage a coherent discussion.” Twisting beneath him, she flopped… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Hackers, makers, programmers, engineers, nerds, techies — what we’ll call “geeks” for the rest of the book (deal with it) — we’re… — Jeff Potter Copy Share Image
“Kathleen Norris, on the publication of her 78th book. 'All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“The man who takes up nothing but a newspaper, but reads it to think, to deduct conclusions from its premises, and form… — Cecil B. Hartley Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And wouldn't it… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“I guess a bit part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it. — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too. — Andrej Pejic Copy Share Image
Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights'… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled This could change your life. — Helen Exley Copy Share Image
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Agency over one's sexual self - and the articulation of that kind of agency - might seem transgressive to readers who don't… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata. — David Grann Copy Share Image
You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
My gut is so strong. I feel like I have a lot of books in me, and they're going to come out… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on boring future generations — Charles De Montesquieu Copy Share Image
In fact, you don’t have a soul, you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Hugh Howey and Amanda Hocking come to mind immediately as authors who managed to build a successful following without the initial support… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
“Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it. — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“The old laws do not stand. Everything can be remade. Marriage does not mean marriage now” — Phillipa Gregory Copy Share Image
