In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who… — James T. Farrell Copy Share Image
I have received emails from readers who have said that they were emotionally impacted by the books, and they feel they are… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
A book, at the same time, also has to do with what I call a buzz in the head. It's a certain… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
John Colman Wood's The Names of Things is a thoughtful, patient, and ultimately rewarding book. It's about, among many other things, the… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Somehow Annie Flanders from the SoHo News heard I was doing pictures and was headed to Paris. She saw my worked, liked… — Roxanne Lowit Copy Share Image
For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
No plasticity exists in the Quran. This book is believed by Muslims to be the verbatim words of God. How can you… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
“I cannot imagine not reading. Some books, of course, are like lovers; you go to bed with them once and fall asleep… — Joe Bennett Copy Share Image
There's nothing definite yet. Of course, any time you have a book, there's going to be book signings and stuff. We'll do… — Scotty Moore Copy Share Image
If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
My parents were only one part of my lineage. I also met a number of mentors, one of whom I nicknamed "Socrates"… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If you buy my book at Walmart, I don't want you to read it. I want you to set it on fire.… — Sara Benincasa Copy Share Image
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If you're an Indian, you could be very anxious about some of the Supreme Court's decisions, some of the decisions of policy… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'll read pretty much anywhere and anytime, but for a while now, I've really enjoyed reading on flights, especially the longer hauls,… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
The misfortunes which God is represented in the book of Job as allowing Satan to inflict on Job, merely to test his… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
I sometimes think to myself, you're not going to meet a new friend of any kind at home in front of the… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Comic book readers are just as abandoned by the corporate system as the creators, despite the importance supposedly given their hard-earned dollars.… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling… — Chris Evans Copy Share Image
Theatre aside, my penchant for the extended monologue began with my reading of Browning's dramatic monologues, in high school. My inclination to… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
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I don't believe that fiction is dead. I know there are some people who believe that it's an outdated art form, and… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Most remember the groundbreaking first in sports; few remember the third or fourth to follow in those tracks. That's not downplaying anyone's… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
By the time I got to college I had stopped reading books because I wanted to "be cool" and started reading books… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
The handwritten pages make for fun giveaways. If someone reviews one of my books online, like on Amazon or Goodreads, they can… — Brian Pinkerton Copy Share Image
