A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“As you make those daily choices about what to spend your time on and which possibilities to pursue, the author and consultant… — Warren Berger Copy Share Image
“As psychologist Herb Goldberg reminds us in his book The Hazards of Being Male, 'The male has paid a heavy price for… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
Once you write a book, you hand it over to the readers, and it's their book then. They're so involved. They ask… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
We like to look out on the world and see ourselves, so we have many, many novels, memoirs, and short stories in… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
A psychologically engrossing novel about the homes we make-in our houses, in our neighborhoods, and in the hearts of our loved ones.… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
Literature may make the reader reexamine some of his or her own conventions, look at himself or herself in a different way,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
And while good books - even so-so books - serve both functions, if you ever have to choose one over the other,… — Pete Dexter Copy Share Image
Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
My brother had a big comic book chest, and he kept the key in the exact same place. So when he would… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I was undeveloped and out of touch. The arts was another arena in which to do combat and challenge… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
... the novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
One good thing about a good book or a good film, or maybe even a song, I'm not a musician but I… — Kleber Mendonca Filho Copy Share Image
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“A phrase Max had used bothered me. I was not to be surprised if my work underwent a change. I might find… — Dorothy Macardle Copy Share Image
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
You know, I'm a big comic book fan. As a kid I used to collect them until there was a horrible mudslide… — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
A lot of my ideas come from McNally Jackson bookstore. One of my favorite things to do is just go there and… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I don't think it's more positive to have a Twitter account, a Tumblr, and a blog. Someone without those things will use… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I wrote my first sucio story, as I call them, in 1997. This was always my 'cheater's book,' my book about sucios… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“We don’t always act on what we read, and neither can we do what we aim to do within a certain period… — Vishal Ostwal Copy Share Image
I can't say that you should extract this or that value from my books explicitly. They are up for interpretation. In terms… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max.… — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
“In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they will… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
I do a lot with characters' sense of identity. I also like challenging stereotypes, gender roles, things like that. Give me a… — Lynn Flewelling Copy Share Image
Work saved me. Literature saved me. It sounds corny but it's absolutely true. I was going in the wrong direction, but after… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
The most casual reader of the New Testament can scarcely fail to see the commanding position the resurrection of Christ holds in… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
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The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
There is a widely read book that tells us everyone is a sinner. Of course, not everyone feels guilt over the bad… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
To see what books were available for my older students, I made many trips to the library. If a book looked interesting,… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
“The human body is a book of secrets, covered in skin and written in blood. Those who which to learn its mysteries… — Fiona Paul Copy Share Image
“A future owned by yellow journalism was not one most reporters wished to contemplate. Some libraries had already barred the "World" and… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
“Ideas, of course, have a place in fiction, and any writer of fiction needs a mind. But ideas are not the best… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I don't normally get very star struck. However, I was just at a table read for a movie. It was an animated… — Rob Huebel Copy Share Image
“How about a kiss, Saumensch ?" He stood waist-deep in the water for a few moments longer before climbing out and handing… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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