To escape the power of the unknown, to prove to yourself that you don't believe in it, you accept its spells. Like… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“If you missed your chance to read a particular book, even if it was recommended to you or is one you have… — Marie Kondō Copy Share Image
“He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, and effectual comforter. By study,… — Barrow Copy Share Image
I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
The first education should be the harmonious development of the child's physical, mental and spiritual powers. Providing warm and understanding responses to… — Dorothy Moore Copy Share Image
That is the person you want publishing your book. To be in it, you really have to believe in books and love… — Clancy Martin Copy Share Image
Religious liberty in a nation is as real as the liberty of its least popular religious minority. Look not to the size… — Paul Blanshard Copy Share Image
There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I heard of Martin Luther King Jr. when I was 15 years old. I heard of Rosa Parks. And I met Dr.… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
As my editor had no desire to frighten readers with the Romanian pages, he had them translated and published the whole thing… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
In winter I like sprawling novels, full of conflict and intrigue, and during the bleakest, coldest days of December I holed up… — Maud Newton Copy Share Image
How could two teams of scientists come to such obviously contradictory conclusions on seemingly every point that matters in the debate over… — Joseph L. Bast Copy Share Image
“Hank Nearly was an avid reader. He arrived early in his brown corduroy coat, with a book taken from the library, copied… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I like to go to the gym with my girls, practice yoga, try new recipes, bake, have slumber parties, go to the… — Lindsay Pearce Copy Share Image
“One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
In grades 1 through 4 these books introduce the child to U.S. society - to family life, community activities, ordinary economic transactions,… — Paul Vitz Copy Share Image
I always feel like an idiot every time I fly first class because I’m a kid. And I just sit there, and… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
Samuel Beckett is the person that I read the most of - certainly the person whose books I own the most of.… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s journey to… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of course there are a lot of books that are interesting to make movies out of, but on the other hand, I… — Uwe Boll Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
What advice do you have for writers working on their first novels?If you feel called to write a book, consider it a… — Kathleen Grissom Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes me put down a book is if the characters are boring, or the situations aren't fraught with… — Michael Boatman Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to give any book an inspectional reading without being alert, without having all of one's faculties awake and working.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life is too short to read books whose cleverness makes them impenetrable. A good book should keep you awake at night, flickering… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
Well, Thanksgiving we'll all gather at my house for dinner and we usually do Christmas at Beau's house. My mom is still… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of nothing in particular,… — Edmond Francois Valentin About Copy Share Image
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