“Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Books are, I find, the best provisions a man can take with him on life’s journey.” — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“I prefer reading books than the time on your watch.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
“The man who doesn't read has no advantage over the man who cannot read." Mark Twain” — Tim Underwood Copy Share Image
In many ways my writing is like therapy. It is my way of dealing with things. — Corey Smith Copy Share Image
“I’d like the reading of this book to leave you with the impression that you’ve traversed a sensual nightmare.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Pro captu lectoris, habent sua fata libelli" or, "According to the ability of the reader, every book has its own destiny.” — Terentianus Maurus Copy Share Image
A lot of writing is everybody being revealed, but the reader should feel like only they are being revealed. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“How will I reconcile my interest in and membership of LibraryThing with GoodReads? Can manage a workable appreciation of both?” — Craig Hodges Copy Share Image
I teach kids to read on a Saturday for this charity called Real Action. It's a voluntary school because lots of the… — Rachael Stirling Copy Share Image
The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster.… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“When people ask me that question that everyone asks: "What do you do?" I'd say, "I'm in customer service," which was true.… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“In old Chinese novels, especially in the Kimpeibai, usually after every ten or twenty pages of innocent description, the author invariably throws… — Ōgai Mori Copy Share Image
“Start telling the stories that only you can tell. Because there will always be better writers than you, and there will always… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You could tell from the books whether a library was meant for show or not. Books that were used had an open,… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image