“If the characters are not wicked, the book is." We must tell stories the way God does, stories in which a sister… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Even more than getting compliments on social media, what I love is when some random stranger says something very funny or insightful… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to… — James Frey Copy Share Image
The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“He didn’t remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe furrow and a… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
It is incumbent upon the Aghsan, the Afnan and My kindred to turn, one and all, their faces towards the Most Mighty… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
Back when I was 16, when I should have been doing normal high school things, I availed myself of my brand new… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
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During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
To me, feminism in literature deals with the female characters being in some way central to the thematic concerns of the book,… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
“I think Alice Miller's Drama of the Gifted Child is one of the books read by nearly every therapist. Everyone's jaw drops… — Ryan Howes Copy Share Image
I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I remember reading in a comedy book very long ago when I first started, a person said there's a difference between a… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
I spend my life studying that book, and every book I've written has in some sense been a book about the Bible,… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public… — Maxine Cheshire Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
What they don't realize is that I'm not in the business to make clothes. I'm not in the business to make more… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
“The seven lessons in this book represent the foundation curriculum that I have been using in my coaching practice at The 1%… — Tommy Newberry Copy Share Image
But, you know, I just did a big trip in the spring to Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand, and that's when I… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
“Books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves. Inside this solitude, we take on contours, textures, perspectives. Heightened language levitates the… — John Leonard Copy Share Image
I kept saying to myself, this is a calling that God has given me. And so with intention I said, "Okay I'm… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Monk worked on his remaining Intertect cases at his dining table while I tried to hone my detecting instincts by reading the… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
When I was released by the Americans I read historian Trevor Roper's book, 'The Last Days of Hitler'. Throughout the book like… — Hanna Reitsch Copy Share Image
In recent years I have become more interested in making the critical ideas that I love teaching and talking about available in… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Tal told me he loved me, and told me and told me, but you don't tell someone that and then tell them… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“Once more, he was immersing himself in books, reaching the end of long articles, even going back over paragraphs to make sure… — Julie Highmore Copy Share Image
The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader,… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
I love to eat, I love to feed people, and I'm a great cook. I joked with my friends that I wanted… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
