Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
“An earthworm close by sighed and said, “Well now, men are clear enough about what they’ve understood, but can’t infer one thing… — Issai Chozanshi Copy Share Image
We were at a kibbutz, and we were at a Shabbat service, and I opened up the prayer book, and on the… — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
“It would be better to close the book, close the books, and to face, all at once, not life, which is very… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
“That's the thing about me. I prefer things once they're already over and I'm working on understanding them. I wish I were… — Rachel DeWoskin Copy Share Image
Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
I made the decision that I didn't want to spend my life in rooms and write about rooms, or else make books… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
“Poetry is about finding the best way to plagiarize the reader’s ideas, thoughts, emotions, feelings and memories, their past present or future… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“I understand less than half the words in that sentence, but God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from… — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
I get letters from adults saying that they love the books because they are more in-depth with characterization than the comics. The… — Lisa Yee Copy Share Image
“Maryanne Burkhard and I have set up a B W Wrighthard profile on Goodreads. If any of you would like to friend… — B W Wrighthard Copy Share Image
“In the past few years, more and more passionate debates about the nature of SFF and YA have bubbled to the surface.… — Foz Meadows Copy Share Image
“I write books that I want to read. I write books that feature curvy heroines because I'm a curvy woman myself and… — Seraphina Donavan Copy Share Image
“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“Elio: What were you doing? Oliver: Thinking. Elio: About? Oliver: Things. Going back to the States. The courses I have to teach… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Read day and night, devour books—these sleeping pills—not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to write, do two things - read lots of books and also, in your own writing, practise. Just write… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I'd read a lot of scripts, and I remember reading 'Orange Is the New Black,' and it was at the head of… — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
I was obsessed with a writer called Martin Amis when I was a teenager. I read everything. Every single time I went… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
“I fear books; for I have heard it said, and I think it true, that a man who spends long enough in… — Chris Naylor Copy Share Image
“That distinctive singular stamp of himself is one of the main reasons readers come to love an author. The way you can… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I figured I could read more than five pages tonight since I'd been deprived for the last couple of days. When I… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback.… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
“He lay with yellow hair and closed eyes, and the book thief ran toward him and fell down. She dropped the black… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Have you a room that you could let?" "Yes, I have a room that I could let, but I do not want… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“He doesn't know anything," said Klein. "That's his trouble. He's clever, but he doesn't know much. I guess he only began to… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
“A certain pleasure was added to Grace’s relief at establishing herself as a migratory bird. She found that she understood the characters… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
I have written a book called 'In the Wonderland of Numbers.' It's about a young girl, Neha, who is very poor in… — Shakuntala Devi 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
Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Another silence for the record books. Then he sighs. "I know. It's crazy. I feel like --" He stops himself. He suddenly… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“I have written this book with the conviction that the response to injury does not have to be vengeance and that we… — Mahmood Mamdani Copy Share Image
The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
