“Salman Rushdie said, "A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your… — Veronica Bale Copy Share Image
If you read Mein Kampf, Hitler's book, which I have outside, I bought it when I was eleven, Hitler said, "democracy inevitably… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
This summer-sweet night is only one minute upon one minute upon another Beautiful cacophony, sugar upon lips, dancing to exhaustion I thought… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The effort to create a work of art that is true and potentially lasting, that is the very best work of art… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
On Obamacare, every day that goes by I have more evidence that I wish I could put in my book, on how… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Few people read coffee-table photo books, and indeed they are not intended to be read. I find the text in these books… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
I don't think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet… — John Green Copy Share Image
A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“The essential criterion for running a bookstore is less "Do you like books?" than "Do you like people?" Ironically, we find that… — Wendy Welch Copy Share Image
“I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first… — Jay Allison Copy Share Image
William Waltz will take me through 'the buzz and clamor in a forest of hearts.' Adventures in the Lost Interiors of America… — James Tate Copy Share Image
No one writes better historical fiction than Steven Pressfield. The Afghan War that was waged by Alexander the Great 2000 years ago… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book that imagined where advances in the study of genetics might lead us. Holman was the first… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as the greatest album ever. There's no greatest book, greatest human, greatest movie. At a push, the closest… — Richard Norris Copy Share Image
My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I'm happy that I wrote 'How Should a Person Be?' and I wouldn't have written that exact book if we had just… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The most obvious – and easiest! – way to gain perspective is to put your work away for a while. The truth… — Elizabeth Sims Copy Share Image
Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of… — Dean H. Kenyon Copy Share Image
All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
There is a book into which some of us are happily led to look, and to look again, and never tire of… — Walter Besant Copy Share Image
The understanding that women are not inferior across the world, it's something that you can get from school, not only from the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I had been writing for the 'Late Show' for about four years when I started writing short stories. I had a blast… — Jill Davis Copy Share Image
In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the… — Fulton Oursler Copy Share Image
I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It only took Alexis a day to read a five-hundred page book. Fiction stories took her to another world where she could… — Lindsay Chamberlin Copy Share Image
He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As much as there are intellectual choices to be made and all the rest of it, a great actor has the ability… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
In many Muslim countries, witchcraft is not only on the books as a crime, but is commonly prosecuted. In 2009, for example,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
The best way for parents to go about acquiring a mind-set of self-reflective parenting will be different for different individuals. Some people… — Timothy Carey Copy Share Image
A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
M. J. Putney has created true magic with this book, the kind that comes when you curl up in a comfortable armchair… — Catherine Asaro Copy Share Image
Sometimes I forget what I put in. I want to capture things in that way, where you're looking into your memory, a… — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
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