“Well, I’m warning you. I could be a bad book with a good jacket.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass. — John Berger Copy Share Image
A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“To question, to ponder, and to learn. Education was my drug of choice—classrooms, books, lectures, pushing myself to understand.” — Elizabeth J. Church Copy Share Image
I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
If you want a happy ending, learn to open up, because no one can finish a story with a closed book. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds. — Ville Valo Copy Share Image
I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
“The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I grew up on Harvard Square and I watched 50-year old men walking around with green book bags slung over their shoulders… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark… — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
I think the Internet gives too much for a young artist to compare themselves too. I'm not sure that "notes" or "likes"… — Liz Prince Copy Share Image
“Ever since the days when such formidable mediocrities as Galsworthy, Dreiser, Tagore, Maxim Gorky, Romain Rolland and Thomas Mann were being accepted… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
By writing a horror novel where this inexplicable disorder takes over in our ordered lives, you make order look better by comparison.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Encouraged by this to a further examination of his opinions, she proceeded to question him on the subject of books; her favourite… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Haunting the library as a kid, reading poetry books when I was not reading bird books, I had been astonished at how… — Kenn Kaufman Copy Share Image
To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“You are rich because of what is in your heart, not your pocket book.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along. — Cleo Moore Copy Share Image
A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books. — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
Evil or manipulative people don't need a book, they just do it anyway. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
