“There’s just something about reading a story that makes me happier than anything else in the world.” — Vanessa Booke Copy Share Image
You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it. — Giovannino Guareschi Copy Share Image
Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Everyone has a book inside them - but it doesn't do an good until you pry it out.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating. — Ryan O'Neal Copy Share Image
For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I'm sitting in my hotel room, I'm reading. If I've got some time after class, I'm reading. If I can get… — Myles Garrett Copy Share Image
“This book is like any other book. But I would be happy if it were only read by people whose souls are… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Milo’s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some curious chance… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
“Read a book, words by words, to find a story within and be amazed. Your heart will make that poor written book… — Adam Aksara Copy Share Image
“If you grew up in a rural area, you have seen how farmhouses come and go, but the dent left by cellars… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Sometimes I've drawn on autobiographical material, maybe situations that I've felt trapped by, and turned them into something else, but in a… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
All I've ever really done is page 3 in The Sun, and not every man reads that. — Katie Price Copy Share Image
Books come in really handy when you need something to put your laptop on. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer, although, as a filmmaker, you are an author in a certain way. — Rob Marshall Copy Share Image
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“Those who don't read have no advantage over those who can't." --Mark Twain” — Lisa Mayme Corbit Copy Share Image
I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards. — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
“The more our fingers are getting skilled on keypad the more we are losing the art of holding the pen.” — Himmilicious Copy Share Image
“Writing is like trying to escape quicksand. The harder you try the faster you sink.” — Alane Adams Copy Share Image
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
