Quote by Laurence Cossé

“It is not up to the writer to create a masterpiece. That is what readers do.”

— Bart J. Gilbertson

“This is the thing about great literature. It reads like truth and sticks to you forever and lets you know that you are not…

— Arlaina Tibensky

“I think part of why I have so many books around me and why I read every day is because I mythologize the writer.…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

“For God sake write and don't worry about what the boys will say nor whether it will be a masterpiece nor what. I write…

— Ernest Hemingway

“When one's thoughts and experience have not reached a certain point for reading a masterpiece, the masterpiece will leave only a bad flavor on…

— Lin Yutang

“A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one.”

— Carl Sandburg

“Lord! haven't I seen you with the greatest authors in your hands, and don't I know how ready your attention is to wander when…

— Wilkie Collins

“There's nothing quite like reading a good book that just might become your favorite.”

— Joscelyn Gleave

“A good book is hard to read, on account of how often it makes you stop and think.”

— Chris Brady

“We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.”

— Harold Bloom

“It’s like you’re a book I’ve read a thousand time without ever picking up. Your prose that effortlessly falls off my tongue and yet,…

— Sarah Noffke

“Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana