In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great. — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.” — Angie-Marie Delsante Copy Share Image
When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I hate to ask about the title, because it makes it seem like that is all I've read of the book. — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I hope my children will grow up to love literature, but I expect they will absorb it as readily via a screen… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
“The ugly fact is books are made out of books, the novel depends for its life on the novels that have been… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with… — Fergie Copy Share Image
You just never know if people out there will relate to things when you write them; it matters to you, and to… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I like to read to my kids before bed. With my first two sons we went through every Wizard Of Oz book,… — Rob Crow Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when I’m in a bookstore or a library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy… — Jerry Pinto Copy Share Image
I guess I still feel that way and yet I'm slightly hesitant to insist on that idea, that it "better be fun… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
We can read the paper or current magazines and learn about national and world events, think about controversial subjects, learn how to… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
