Books Quote by Colleen Coble

“That can be the cruelest part of happiness--its tendency to disguise itself in boredom." - Marie-Helene Bertino, Safe as Houses , title story”

— Marie-Helene Bertino

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me…

— Alberto Manguel

“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in…

— Theodore Roosevelt

When I first read Helen Weinzweig's 'Basic Black with Pearls' several years ago, I emerged in the sort of daze that happens when a…

— Sarah Weinman

I was immediately swept up in Ariane's story. Equal parts thrill-ride and love story, The Rules is intense and emotional. This book stays with…

— Sophie Jordan

“The shock was akin to that of buying, out of duty, a novel written by a dull and uninspired acquaintance and finding there passages…

— Andrew Sean Greer

In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of a serial…

— Stephen King

Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.

— Robert E. Lee

Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that have greatly…

— Timothy Ferriss

I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of…

— Octavio Paz

“But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must read to supply their…

— Jane Austen