“She took to reading with a fervor so extreme, Baba Joseph had to take the books from her hands by force. 'Your… — Nancy Farmer Copy Share Image
Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I'm a book guy first, and my education came from two encyclopedias. One was an encyclopedia of health, so I became morbidly… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
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Sometimes one's very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot… — James Franco Copy Share Image
If I'm doing something in fashion, I will try to respect the 'laws' of the business, but I will try to keep… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“The novel should tell the truth, as I see the truth, or as the novelist persuades me to see it. And one… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
Intellectuals of [Albert] Camus' age who had previously disliked him now appreciate him. And at that point we come back to literature,… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
“In the nouveau roman of Robbe-Grillet there is an attempt at a more or less Copernican change in the relation between the… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
Reading was really my only training in fiction writing. I never took a class or read a book on how to write.… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I always save a huge book for a flight, because then you read it at both airports and on the plane and… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
When once experience taught me that I could work when I chose, and within a quarter of an hour of my determining… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I'm so happy that James Baraz's AWAKENING JOY class is now available in book form. His class has been helpful to thousands… — M. J. Ryan Copy Share Image
This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference… — John M Swomley Copy Share Image
When I decided to write a novel about Istanbul, I thought I should put the different faces of Istanbul into one book.… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
“all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before. Now the way… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It is now expedient to give some description of Mrs. Allen, that the reader may be able to judge in what manner… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Reading a book carves brand-new neural pathways into the ancient cortical bedrock of our brains. It transforms the way we see the… — Kevin Dutton Copy Share Image
I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on… — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“All writers are demonic dreamers. Writing is an act of sharing experiences and offering of an individualistic perspective of our private attitudes… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Dedicated to the memory of MY FATHER. For if I had not believed that he would have wished me to give such… — Leonard Darwin Copy Share Image
Julio's Day is a story of one man's life, but it's a great more than that as well. It's the story of… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
The Love Dare for Parents really came from an ongoing response from people who went through the couple's book asking us to… — Alex Kendrick Copy Share Image
A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, 'How am I supposed… — Clyde Edgerton Copy Share Image
Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“That was the only tragic thing about books: they changed people. All except the truly evil, who did not become better fathers,… — Nina George Copy Share Image
“These words on the screen represented her latest project, an attempt at a series of commercial, discreetly feminist crime novels. She had… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world is only to be acquired… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're a history buff, you know about J. Edgar Hoover. He was likely the most powerful man in the US. If… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
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