“A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“You're a little bit of a show-off. First you get us out of hell. And then you defeat like the biggest, baddest… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Quality. That's the first word, the one word that comes to mind when I think of the books published by Abrams. In… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Reading their books over and over again, people continue making mistakes; they are so proud of their religious robes. But what is… — Sri Guru Granth Sahib Copy Share Image
“Pat, if there's anything you recall about your first visit with Monsignor Frank Kief, I sincerely hope it's this: there is no… — Kerry Casey Copy Share Image
“I can assure you Ernest Hemingway was wrong when he said modern American literature began with Huckleberry Finn. It begins with Moby-Dick,… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The accused and the magistrate next engaged in a dialogue about what constituted witchcraft. If she had not signed the book, had… — Mary Beth Norton Copy Share Image
The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The authors of the Affordable Care Act wrongly assumed that new kinds of health plans, engineered in Washington, D.C., would emerge to… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The inherent non-linearity of the digital allows for more input from others, including the subject and reader as collaborators. The top-down, bedtime-style… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
“A good book laces invisible fingers into the shape of a winter armchair or a hammock in the sun. I'm not talking… — Brenda Walker Copy Share Image
She's not like anyone I've ever seen before. When I'm not with her, I want to be. And when she opens the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A vivid portrait of a teenage girl and her family in disarray. Meredith is a wonderful narrator, witty, feisty, full of yearning,… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
“Isn't that the essence of literature?...Our ability to identify with characters, no matter that they're separated from us by thousands of miles… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
“There is no such “mother” as Mother Nature. Nature itself is powerless to produce life of any kind. In itself, nature is… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“But really, that is kind of silly,' Abigail tried to explain. 'I mean, a book is much less personal than a programmed… — William Sleator Copy Share Image
“For example, if she joined the book club — there was always a book club — and hung out with them, her… — Pete Hautman Copy Share Image
Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some… — Raina Telgemeier Copy Share Image
Often you will find the opposite situation. The author seems to have interesting ideas, but he is not able to illustrate them… — Mark Dvoretsky Copy Share Image
Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line.… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“Rarely in life do you find an object that retains its ability to continuously impact regardless of how many times it has… — Orly Wahba Copy Share Image
Another way of saying "put it in the Book" would be that each poem we write pops up in the city of… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I’ll read a book and feel it was written just for me. Then I’ll flip the book over to look at… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
For readers of color, and especially black readers, black girls, I just want them to feel seen. And not just seen -… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
“He admires as a lover, not as a connoisseur. To satisfy me, those characters must be united. I could not be happy… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Do not criticise others, for all doctrines and all dogmas are good; but show them by your lives that religion is no… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book by the former Brazilian ambassador Celso Amorim. In 2010, he initiated an effort along with Turkey to settle… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“...fiction writing is like duck hunting. You go to the right place at the right time with the right dog. You get… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The novel has become a function of the fragmented society, the fragmented consciousness. Human beings are so divided, are becoming more and… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I've never done anything bad. I can't do anything bad. It's got to be professional. It's got to look professional. It's got… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
“It is known that the Quran leaves an analytical reader the impression of disarrangement, and that it seems to be a compound… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
“On the two-way street of communication, a happy symbiosis is achieved when a writer tosses up an offbeat usage or a puzzling… — William Safire Copy Share Image
The search for the Torah codes is rooted in the unfathomable theological premise that the Torah - itself a set of five… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
A western buckaroo, I share his scorn for people who go camping by the book, relying on the authority of some half-assed… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
