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Image of A. Whitney Brown
Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.
- A. Whitney Brown
Collection: Book
Image of Jackie Morse Kessler
THREE DAYS TO DEAD is one of the best books I've read. Ever. Evy Stone is a heroine's heroine, and I rooted for her from the moment I met her. Kelly Meding has written a phenomenal story, one that's fast-paced, gritty, and utterly addictive. Brava! More! More! More!
- Jackie Morse Kessler
Collection: Book
Image of Paul Harding
I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it.
- Paul Harding
Collection: Book
Image of Mem Fox
Books don't harm kids; they arm them.
- Mem Fox
Collection: Book
Image of Dodie Smith
When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.
- Dodie Smith
Collection: Book
Image of Paula McLain
Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced and my heart soared with stories.
- Paula McLain
Collection: Book
Image of Casey Affleck
Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.
- Casey Affleck
Collection: Book
Image of Richard Carlson
When you take time , often to reflect on the miracle of life - the miracle that you are even able to read this book - the gift of sight ,of love and all the rest , it can hep to remind you that many of the things that you think as "big stuff" are really just "small stuff" that you are turning into big tuff
- Richard Carlson
Collection: Book
Image of Edward Young
Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies? That meddling ape imitation, as soon as we come to years of indiscretion, (so let me speak,) snatches the pen, and blots out nature's mark of separation, cancels her kind intention, destroys all mental individuality. The lettered world no longer consists of singulars: it is a medley, a mass; and a hundred books, at bottom, are but one.
- Edward Young
Collection: Book
Image of Studs Terkel
The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.
- Studs Terkel
Collection: Book
Image of Studs Terkel
Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.
- Studs Terkel
Collection: Book
Image of Hugh Walpole
A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.
- Hugh Walpole
Collection: Book
Image of Mary Downing Hahn
I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself.
- Mary Downing Hahn
Collection: Book
Image of Susanna Clarke
All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.
- Susanna Clarke
Collection: Book
Image of Susanna Clarke
How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.
- Susanna Clarke
Collection: Book
Image of Susanna Clarke
The governess was not much liked in the village. She was too tall, too fond of books, too grave, and, a curious thing, never smiled unless there was something to smile at.
- Susanna Clarke
Collection: Book
Image of Ed O'Neill
I loved the movie theater so I always saw a lot of movies. And then there was a play, I saw in the local paper, they were having auditions for a play of a book I had read. Which was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. So I said, "oh, I've read this, so I'm perfect for the part of the lead." His name is escaping me.
- Ed O'Neill
Collection: Book
Image of Harry Golden
Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.
- Harry Golden
Collection: Book
Image of Po Bronson
Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books have changed my life.
- Po Bronson
Collection: Book
Image of Po Bronson
I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that’s kind of a gift to the author. The gift of close, undivided attention. To who else do we listen so closely for eight straight hours? And when readers give that gift to me, I’m grateful for it.
- Po Bronson
Collection: Book
Image of Po Bronson
Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book is like being trapped in a room for ten hours with those characters. Think of your main characters as dinner guests. Would your friends want to spend ten hours with the characters you’ve created? Your characters can be loveable, or they can be evil, but they’d better be compelling. If not, your reader will be bored and leave.
- Po Bronson
Collection: Book
Image of Po Bronson
Write first. Worry about getting an agent or publisher later. Write it first. Prove you can do it and then others will listen. Tons of people talk about books they want to write. Far fewer are those who actually complete that vision. Don’t be a talker.
- Po Bronson
Collection: Book
Image of John Berendt
The megaselling books by celebrities are not so much books as products.
- John Berendt
Collection: Book
Image of Sonia Sanchez
The words loved me and I loved them in return.
- Sonia Sanchez
Collection: Book
Image of China Mieville
Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.
- China Mieville
Collection: Book
Image of China Mieville
What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with me politically or you're not interested in the thematics, the story will still keep you turning the pages.
- China Mieville
Collection: Book
Image of Colleen Coble
I have rarely read a more wonderful book than To Win Her Favor by Tamera Alexander. Rich with historical detail and fully developed characters, this novel held me spellbound until the last page. If you read one historical novel this year, make it To Win Her Favor. It will linger with you long after the last page.
- Colleen Coble
Collection: Book
Image of Ari Berk
I am a book also, words and thoughts and stories held together by flesh. We open and close ourselves to the world. We are read by others or put away by them. We wait to be seen, sitting quietly on shelves for someone to bother having a look inside us.
- Ari Berk
Collection: Book
Image of Amber Tamblyn
Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.
- Amber Tamblyn
Collection: Book
Image of Ted Chiang
Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future, including telling others what I know: those who know the future don't talk about it. Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it.
- Ted Chiang
Collection: Book
Image of Alexander Theroux
Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.
- Alexander Theroux
Collection: Book
Image of Alexander Theroux
Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.
- Alexander Theroux
Collection: Book
Image of Alexander Theroux
Reviewing books is all about coziness. It is all of it a kind of caucus race. Women review women, Jewish writers review and praise Jewish writers, blacks review blacks, etc.
- Alexander Theroux
Collection: Book
Image of Karen Russell
Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn't have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldn't be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a library's peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of light.
- Karen Russell
Collection: Book
Image of Kate Morton
Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.
- Kate Morton
Collection: Book
Image of Kate Morton
True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise intelligent, right-thinking people to do such extravagant, irrational things. Now I do. It's an illness. You can catch it when you least expect. There's no known cure. And sometimes, in its most extreme, it's fatal.
- Kate Morton
Collection: Book
Image of Holly Lisle
The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book
- Holly Lisle
Collection: Book
Image of Barbara Hambly
I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.
- Barbara Hambly
Collection: Book
Image of Fanny Fern
What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.
- Fanny Fern
Collection: Book
Image of Zilpha Keatley Snyder
There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread books. Best of all was the eager itch of anticipation as you went out the door with your arms loaded down with books.
- Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Collection: Book
Image of John Robbins
Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent.
- John Robbins
Collection: Book
Image of J. K. Rowling
I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
- J. K. Rowling
Collection: Book
Image of Brian K. Vaughan
I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.
- Brian K. Vaughan
Collection: Book
Image of Helen DeWitt
There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people who think the only reason to read a book is to write a book.
- Helen DeWitt
Collection: Book
Image of Gregory Maguire
Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.
- Gregory Maguire
Collection: Book
Image of Gregory Maguire
I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.
- Gregory Maguire
Collection: Book
Image of James Rollins
Books are keys that open many doors -- James Rollins
- James Rollins
Collection: Book
Image of Ellen Page
I'm not a fancy person. I love small spaces. I like tiny cars. I don't buy things, aside from music and books. I don't get loads of attention and maybe it's because I'm kind of boring. I don't think I'm boring, but I have different interests. I don't go out much, not because I'm hiding but because I'm not a big drinker. I go out and have a good time, I go to concerts and stuff.
- Ellen Page
Collection: Book
Image of Christopher Morley
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
- Christopher Morley
Collection: Book