“But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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People are rushed and inspired by the success of Indian writers, and are falling over themselves to write novels. Every Indian is… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you'll go through a phase where… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“British writer G. K. Chesterton gave a famous two-word response when a newspaper asked its readers to share what they thought was… — Morgan Guyton Copy Share Image
Growing up in San Antonio, I was the dork at the Friday night football games with my head buried in a book… — Amy Chozick Copy Share Image
Solitary people, these book lovers. I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life,… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“One of the many successes of the devil over pilgrims is his hold on many who are addicts of the social media,… — Oluseyi Akinbami Copy Share Image
There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations;… — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more nerve-racking than waiting as someone reads your writing. The reader becomes the videographer, zooming far, far into your… — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
At the moment I'm building my battered women shelter task force and working on a skincare line and lifestyle brand. I also… — Stacey Dash Copy Share Image
When we talk about politicization, when we talk about book banning, when we talk about Black history curriculum being picked apart -… — Miguel Cardona Copy Share Image
I am pieces of quotes from my favorite books, stitched together by song lyrics, and I am glued together by midnight conversations,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“novel excerpts rarely benefit from group critique. It’s one thing to get all those opinions when you’ve finished, but when you’re still… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“I think reading a good book makes one modest. When you see the marvelous insight into human nature which a truly great… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
When you're adapting a novel, there are always scenes taken out of the book, and no matter which scenes they are, it's… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
My strips are not always funny, and they can be pretty grim at times, and I know I lose readers because of… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
“The experience of watching Leonard get better was like reading certain difficult books. It was plowing through late James, or the pages… — Jeffery Eugenides Copy Share Image
“More recently, Britt Beemer, of America’s Research Group, found that: One in six said their pastor said something to make them believe… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
“After thirty years working as a commercial fiction translator, I've reached to the conclussion that, on average, the more pages a book… — César Aira Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
My children's books are written on the belief that every child has a talent and a passion. Each story unfolds into an… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
Sight by Jessie Greengrass was put up on Instagram by an acquaintance, so no one actually recommended it to me personally and… — Phoebe Fox Copy Share Image
Time is a function of impact. The longer a book of mine has been in print, the greater its impact seems to… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I didn't write my book, 'I Don't Care About Your Band,' in order to give women a brand-new set of dating rules… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
One of the first books that outlined spiritual mapping was 'Breaking Strongholds in Your City: How to Use Spiritual Mapping to Make… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
Few real people appear in my two novels, actually. "Ari" appears on the edge of this book a couple of times -… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I both didn't know Owen [Suskind] beforehand and didn't have any connection to the autistic community. But Owen wasn't really a problem,… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
My first memory of the Harry Potter series was my little brother just falling into those books and not resurfacing until he… — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
“September 1973, that's where this novel begins. That's the entrance. We'll just hope there's an exit. If there isn't one, there wouldn't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image