When you're rereading or editing your book and you start to expect that this work is going to be reviewed, and you… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
I love you and I cannot hide it Have tried to keep my sanity but the more I try to resist,the more… — Emmanuel Tamatey Copy Share Image
Let's see, now... in HOGFATHER there are a number of stabbings, someone's killed by a man made of knives, someone's killed by… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what can happen is… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“Asking a writer why they like to write {in the theoretical sense of the question} is like asking a person why they… — Rachel Heffington Copy Share Image
I read 'Twilight' when I was overseas. I actually liked it. I didn't expect to, because I generally don't like fantasy like… — Sue Bird Copy Share Image
“When Baby Boomers grow up and write books to explain why one or another individual is successful, they point to the power… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
“Yet historians still start their books with a ritual lament about 'the sources' and their inadequacy. The lament is not entirely insincere… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“It is wrong, then, to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences (like the meeting of Anna, Vronsky, the railway… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Ask a book publisher how many copies a book has sold, and he or she, presuming you’re not the author, will probably… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media.… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“There's a Good Book about goodness and how to be good and so forth, but there's no Evil Book about how to… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“Why do you think people stopped reading? We read to connect with other minds. But why read when you're busy writing, describing… — Alena Graedon Copy Share Image
“Hindu fundamentalism,” because Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals: no organized church, no compulsory beliefs or rites of worship, no single sacred… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“In his book "Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift", Paul Rahe writes, "Human dignity is bound up with taking responsibility for conducting one's own… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Hinduism especially - in the absence of codified rituals or a book of rules to circumscribe it - has always functioned as… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
It is the power of words and books - explaining and dramatizing great ideas and articulating high ideals - that is the… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
“A great physicist taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He published many important books and papers. Often he had an idea… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Impairment of fertility in both men and women because of hypothyroidism is firmly entrenched in medical literature...Miscarriage and fertility problems are a… — Mark Starr Copy Share Image
“What should one do to get rid of ignorance? Attain Gnan (Knowledge of the Self). Use tools such as books and scriptures… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“daughter of the past who walked in all wide-eyed and exhaling like she’d finally found what she was looking for. It was… — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
“She nodded her head in approval and hesitantly shut the book, breathing a reader’s sigh. That wonderful inhale/exhale reaction one does after… — Eric Arvin Copy Share Image
I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
“She had liked once to think of herself as passionate, in love with her books, drunk on history, enamored of the wide… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
The men and women, the weapons, the deerhunt all make a huge and fragile danger in John Bolger's novel The Hunters. There… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
For Twilight, I wasn't thinking it was going to be a crazy success, or anything. It had been rejected by all the… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
When my family goes to sleep, I start clicking, combing through digitized phone books, school yearbooks, and Google Earth views of crime… — Michelle McNamara Copy Share Image
I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
“The influence of Arabic on the language of Palestine was mainly in vocabulary. Thus is seen to some extent in the text… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image