We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I like books that are exciting and that make you think about things as well. — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history. — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
In middle school I wrote a paper on Hemingway and none of the sentences had more than five words. — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more time with… — Connie Nielsen Copy Share Image
I'd like to know what I could do if I really had the time to spend on writing a book, with no… — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin… — Allan W. Eckert Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of 'The Lost Weekend.' I have this dog-eared copy of the 1963 Time Reading Program edition, which was… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
“In TIME June 7, 2010 On the sustainability of the publishing industry, in the Chicago Tribune: "I think that book publishing is… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now, I don't think literature doesn't… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book,… — James Wright Copy Share Image
There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
