“In THE INHERITANCE readers will see the dangers associated with counterfeit spiritual experience; but they'll also see the beauty of a personal… — Brian Williams Copy Share Image
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm always worried about how fans of the books will react, but we have kept true to a lot of the books.… — Dominic Sherwood Copy Share Image
“I would bet the most perfect peanut-butter-and-banana sandwich ever assembled that there are more well-adjusted people around today than people who aren’t… — Glendon Swarthout Copy Share Image
A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The library was quiet. It was busy but it was quiet and I thought it must be like this in a monastery… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Never close the book of your life when GOD HAS NOT FINISHED writing your story. Never hang up when GOD IS STILL… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Black newspapers and their readers wasted no time in making the link between America’s inadequacy in space and the dreadful conditions facing… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I'm very visual when I write and get a lot of inspiration from scrolling through Tumblr or Pinterest. I have picture folders… — Astrid S Copy Share Image
Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I truly believe the book of philosophy to be that which stands perpetually open before our eyes, though since it is written… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Generally as a rule I am not. Unless I am super in love with a particular author, because I just want to… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I write to relieve an intellectual itch. I stumble across a hitherto neglected set of events, transformations, characters, or source materials from… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I believe my high school book said I was most likely to become a candlestick maker. Guessing I didn't exactly exude confidence… — Arlene Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Tis to rebuke a vicious taste, which has crept into thousands besides herself, — of reading straight forwards, more in quest of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“There’s an old and honored tradition in exploration literature that you don’t air your dirty laundry in print. Whatever bickering, name-calling, grudge… — Ed Viesturs Copy Share Image
To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
What is fear? Why are you so afraid? Even if everything is known about you and you are an open book, why… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There are, however, those who have called the book [The Kite Runner] divisive and objected to some of the issues raised in… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and books written… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I like literature," I said. "We started watching the film version of Romeo and Juliet today." I didn't tell them this, but… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
“In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Some books you never get over, like a first love. Some books that made an enormous impression on you when you were… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of… — Lorde Copy Share Image
Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
“For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
You can catch a scent in the wind - an idea, or a concept - and follow it. You can delve into… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I was seized at once with a profound fascination, a burning thirst to learn, to immerse myself totally, to melt away, to… — Ryszard Kapuściński Copy Share Image
The best bit of novel writing is being allowed to write exactly what you want at the speed that you want, and… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I would be perfectly willing if a publisher came up to me and said, "I need a novel about underwater Nazi cheerleaders… — Michael McDowell Copy Share Image
“Harry nearly prayed it wasn’t one of her friends who smelled like the beach and books and brine. He inhaled when they… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
In my town we studied the five Books of Moses, but rarely the prophets. We studied the Talmud so much that I… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
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