“He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible,… — Catherine Mayer Copy Share Image
I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the… — Jane Haddam Copy Share Image
Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The people who relate to Playboy, both readers and people who produce it, are not the way the critics think they are. — Christie Hefner Copy Share Image
He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Book light,” Grandma grumbles as I hurry her away from Dad’s boss and his wife. “Who the hell wants a book light?”… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“My memories are not books. They are only stories that I have been over so many times in my head that I… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“November, a dark, rainy Tuesday afternoon. This is my ideal time to be in a bookstore. The shortened light of the afternoon… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
I always wonder: the images that hit your brain when you're young are so significant, because there's not that much information in… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
“Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behind those lies. It's… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite… — Fay Wray Copy Share Image
Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges. — Laura Matilda Towne Copy Share Image
“you read, and the things you listen to or watch on radio or television. “Of” — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I just want to shout, "READ ALL MY FAVORITE BOOKS!” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each. — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
“Writing books is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
