I learned early on that 'Billy on the Street' is a great lesson in 'Don't judge a book by its cover.' — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
In my case, once you sell a lot of books and you are labeled a bestselling author, the serious critics are never… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life. — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
“Death does not mark the end of a chapter in a man’s life, but the end of a book of man, the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Read books and keep informed. The conversation can get old if you don't have some good new topics to bring to the… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
History is a story like any other, but black history is a story so devoid of logic that it frustrates the young… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
My last novel, 'The Keep,' was very explicitly technological, about the quality of living in a state constantly surrounded by disembodied presences,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I think the celebrity author trend reflects, at least in part, the growing influence of marketing departments at publishing companies. The emphasis… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
I always read a lot as a kid and I'd spend long periods of time in my room reading... I wasn't reading… — Michael Riedel Copy Share Image
I often lament that new picture books don't get read because the classics hold up so well. It's a ridiculous complaint because,… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The cookery books will give you a thousand finicky devices, mushrooms in this, mushrooms in that, but there is only one way—to… — H.E. Bates Copy Share Image
“So long as there is gold underneath, who cares about the dust on top? Literature! That old whore! We must try to… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I tried to write a coming of age novel, but I wasn't deep enough to get past the third chapter.” — Rick Robinson Copy Share Image
I am so excited about the 'Goosebumps' movie; I am geeking out. I was a huge fan of the books. — Jillian Bell Copy Share Image
“i am against electronic books. they make real books obsolete, denying the poor and economically challenged freedom.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“Everything before the written word was pre-text. From my book previously feared darkness” — Robert Priest Copy Share Image
One reviewer dubbed my first book, 'Getting Rid of Matthew,' 'chick noir,' and another called it 'anti chick lit,' both of which… — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved… — Henry James Copy Share Image
You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery. — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
The real world is cruel, but in the comfort of literature it can bring some light. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“The problem lies not with the characters within the novel, but with the reader itself.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I don't think I could have - and I wouldn't have wanted to - write a book about climate change that wasn't… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
“What you produce as a writer is art. A voice that opens a vein and leaves the reader lapping at the blood… — H.N. Sieverding Copy Share Image
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“The women in my family were hardworking matriarchs. But the stories I saw on TV and movies and even in many books… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I've got my own philosophy. People who write books have different philosophies. You read too many people and you get screwed up. — George Blanda Copy Share Image
Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
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