When my father died in Greece, leaving my mother strapped, a cheque arrived next day from my Greek publishers who'd just bought… — Emma Tennant Copy Share Image
A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“He swam against the hard current of the class bores - there were three - who could relate every incident in the… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
“books became the greatest purveyors of truth, and the truth shall make you free.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Running a marathon was important to me, so I found time to train for it. Writing books is also important to me,… — Rachel Hollis Copy Share Image
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
“She used to explain how perfect it was to share books, art, and music. What she meant was don't fall for a… — Sarah Tregay Copy Share Image
“The Fault in Our Stars (John Green) - Your Highlight on Location 372-374 | Added on Tuesday, April 1, 2014 10:18:03 PM… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have no way of knowing whether you, who eventually will read this record, like stories or not. If you do not,… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“i love girls under pressure but wouldn't recommend it to people who are under 10. i read it at the age of… — Jacqueline Wilson Copy Share Image
What I like about writing a stand alone novel is you're starting with a fresh world and fresh characters. Part of what… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
Write. Write every day. Write honestly. Write something that doesn’t exist, and you wish did. Read. Learn. Study. Watch people. Listen to… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Look under the passenger seat in a black plastic bin. There should be a book.” Raphael hopped out, dug under the seat,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Don't Read Success Story, Read Only Failure Story. Because, Failure Story You Get A New Idea Io Win. From Success Story You… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“This Zippo read, 'Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil.. for I'm the… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is nice word, people would like to read on it, I feel rather reading book on philosophy one must live philosophy.” — Manish Lakhani Copy Share Image
“Books can move people, inspire people, change people's lives, and even impact whole societies. They are certainly worth spending an afternoon with.” — Jan Surasky Copy Share Image
Don't be scared of me because you can't get around like I get around. You gotta have a blue book to follow… — LaVar Ball Copy Share Image
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Once I’m done with a book, I’m done! I’m just not a sequel kind of girl. By the time I’ve finished a… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The Leftovers is a great basketball book that shines a light on what true competitors can overcome with a solid work ethic. — Tony Romo Copy Share Image
Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone. — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In '85, I read a book that helped me forget about the past and work on the future as far as success… — Bob Backlund Copy Share Image
I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
“Wilde's permanent celebrity belongs to literature, and only his transient notoriety to police news.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
You can only absorb so much information by reading a book before getting your hands dirty and learning the hard way. — Bryan Baeumler Copy Share Image
Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
