Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper,… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
“Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may… — Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson Copy Share Image
There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
You can put things in prose and understand them one way, and then there's understanding it by knowing how it feels. Things… — Rege-Jean Page Copy Share Image
The book is about zombies, in that it is the over-arching theme, but what's going on is the story of these people… — Steven Yeun Copy Share Image
“John lowered the book he'd been reading. "Im sorry. Were you speaking to me?" "I know you were listening, " I said… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
“Being ill when you are a child or growing up is such an enchanted interlude! The outside world, the world of free… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
I finish the book so I can see how it's going to end. I write that first sentence, and if it's the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I didn't really enjoy reading until I married my wife and we began reading the Bible out loud to each other every… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
“literature, in fact, had been concerned with virtues and vices of a perfectly healthy sort, the regular functioning of brains of a… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“Without the personal traumas, tribulations and ‘terribles’ that I have experienced throughout life, I wouldn’t have gained the information necessary to write… — Emma James Copy Share Image
There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“You probably think you know all about men, because you read a lot of romance novels, so you think you're an expert… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
We treat the Bible, not as if it's a magic book that has to be handled like a piece of abracadabra, make… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
I have been writing. Even when I intend not to write, I find myself writing. I'm currently in a place where I… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
“(Phil. 4:8). Notice that Paul doesn't limit that principle to spiritual things; he says if anything is excellent. Paul is telling us… — Charles W. Colson Copy Share Image
It's time to take my life back from the people that are causing my pain and making me unhappy. This is my… — Nylle Copy Share Image
Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Sian Beilock, a psychologist and leading expert on choking, defined the phenomenon in her book Choke as “poor performance that occurs in… — Fitzgerald Matt Copy Share Image
I refuse to censor myself and kids will find their own way to my books and to all of the books that… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
“He had started out the way nearly all writers do, and I'd seen it a hundred times--amateurs transformed into gibbering wrecks by… — Colin Bateman Copy Share Image
“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them. Tattoos, for example, are very hard to… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“To me, nothing can be more important than giving children books, It's better to be giving books to children than drug treatment… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I always wanted to do good work, but not in order to buy big houses and big cars. I just wanted to… — Douglas Henshall Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Was reading a book. It was about a canary. Every year the canarycomes back with a new song. It never repeats its… — Medeski Martin And Wood Copy Share Image
You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever: the very next… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Read as much as possible, especially the work of writers who most deeply affect you. Make those writers your family. Never wait… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
“Probably this has always been the case: once an action is recounted, for intransitive ends, and no longer in order to act… — Barthes Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was poor, growing up, because everyone was in the same boat. I couldn't have bikes. It never really… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
There is no book which tells of a more infamous monster than the Old Testament, with its Jehovah of murder and cruelty… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page.… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
At the heart of every successful romance novel lies the evolution of its characters. Through love, heroes and heroines grow not only… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
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