“On those trains you’ll be taking across Europe. A book light always comes in handy.” — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“A true fiction author is able to act through each character in their book and deliver stunning performances.” — Conrad Brasso Copy Share Image
It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity... — A. Edward Newton Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“An author’s operating charter is to unearth embedded symbols that reflect complementary and inconsistent relationships of our collective assemblage, combine harmonizing and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
You go into a book and you're in the dark, really. You go in with a certain fear and trembling. You know… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
For the bookish, London is a book. For criminals, a map of opportunities. For unpapered immigrants, it is a nest of skinned… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Say whatever is in your heart,” Violet said. Her lips twisted wryly. “And if that doesn’t work, I suggest that you take… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
The coolest thing about J.J. is his openness to us. Truly being an open book in any aspect of life and that's… — T. J. Watt Copy Share Image
Watching an adaptation of your novel can be a violent experience: seeing your old jokes suddenly thrust at you can be alarming.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Author wonders whether God's proclamation of His natural mastery when appearing to Job might be about restoring a sense of wonder to… — mark Buchanan Copy Share Image
I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion. — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
“Having a nice library doesn’t make you smart. Don’t buy books and stack them up in your library; read them.” — Mensah Oteh Copy Share Image
“I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork.… — Virginia Euwer Wolff Copy Share Image
I might not have been academically gifted - I was bad at maths, and science was a struggle - but I was… — Alex Sharp Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“Reading takes you on a wonderful journey to places you have probably never been. Sit back and enjoy your journey.” — Marjorie Taylor Copy Share Image
Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
Watching Beauty and the Beast eating sliced apples and bananas in bed with my coloring books and crayons by my side. I'm 5. — Sarah Hyland Copy Share Image
When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I could spend the rest of my life writing and drawing books for kids and be a very happy man.” — Daniel Sean Kaye Copy Share Image
But, in the end, we editors just pass through. We all know that you, the readers, are the real carriers of the… — Alan Rusbridger Copy Share Image
I see the world as voices, as colors, as it were. From book to book, I change, the subjects change, but the… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“I feel that the characters in my book, if they were real, would be like, "Seriously, another plot twist?” — Kaya Carvajal Copy Share Image
“I have this thing about books – a disease almost – that won’t let me give up until I’ve read to the… — Nicola Haken Copy Share Image
I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text. — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
“Overheard at O'Banion's Beer Emporium: "Pardon me, darlin', but I'm writin' a telephone book. C'n I have yer number?” — Henry D. Spalding Copy Share Image
Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it. — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
“And that is just the list of federal criminal statutes; the states have an even greater number of crimes on the books.” — James Duane Copy Share Image
“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.—George Bernard Shaw” — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“If one does not know how to read the account (karmic) book, then he will start to have doubts, and doubts lead… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
I tried to write the book [Today Matters] with integrity and say, health is one of my daily dozen, and I work… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
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