“All that can be done is for each of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics; and I would… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“Because of A Prayer for Owen Meany, many of my readers assume I am “religious.” I go to church only occasionally—like a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant. And even if it is not… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
All the great naturalists have been habitual walkers, for no laboratory, no book, car, train or plane takes the place of honest… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
“Freeman looked up and grinned. “Karl, this author is American and plainly loves twisted language. Listen: ‘The idiot god Azathoth, that last… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“When Stephen King elaborated on his inspirations for his novel "Carrie" he draws from a time when he was a young man,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Readers tell me that my novels are filled with significant mothers. Do I realize this? Do I do it on purpose? The… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“It is the bane, and pleasure when creating Romance fiction, to know immersion and fulfillment for the reader are based on clarity.… — Glenn Hefley Copy Share Image
A nerd will be a nerd all his life. When we did The Nerd Book at National Lampoon, the nerds got picked… — John Hughes Copy Share Image
“If literary research is like marriage (a mind entwined with the tastes, whims, and thoughts of another for years) and ordinary reading… — Alan Kirby Copy Share Image
To live fully your well-read life -at any age- it is essential to take your selection of books seriously. When you drift… — Pat Williams Copy Share Image
Date a girl who reads!!, brainy is the new sexy!, bigger books are better than bigger boobs!…oh shut the fuck up…date a… — REAM Copy Share Image
Under Milk Wood' was given to me when I was quite young, in Sydney. I didn't even know what Wales was, let… — Princess Michael of Kent Copy Share Image
I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I'm a journalist, not an advocate, so I approached researching and writing the book the same way that I do any other… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I really do enjoy getting out to meet my readers. Writing is such a solitary business, it's gratifying to thank folks in… — Christie Golden Copy Share Image
When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse.… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
“Elliot was trying to teach himself trollish via a two-hundred-year-old book by a man who’d had a traumatic break-up with a troll.… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and… — David Shields Copy Share Image
…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“I don’t think that the definition of library has changed. Libraries have never been repositories solely of books. In Alexandria for instance,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me… — J. D. salinger Copy Share Image
Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
“In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I do care about the consequences of being negative toward people who are powerful. But I'm more afraid of not being taken… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
“My dear child, you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and… — Lily King Copy Share Image
The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place. With this… — John Farrar Copy Share Image
