But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Surely you do not disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don't really suppose, do… — JRR Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I Love Books. I love that moment when you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
My book in a nutshell is about the deleterious effects of patriarchy down through the ages for women and for men and… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou… — Al-Maʿarri Copy Share Image
If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“One of the great diseases of this age is the multitude of books that doth so overcharge the world that it is… — Barnaby Rich Copy Share Image
Not every gay person recites poetry or has read Keats. You can get readers through anything if the characters are complicated. You… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Rules cease to exist once they have outlived their value, but forms live on eternally. There are forms of the novel which… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Don't try to guess what sort of thing editors want to publish or what you think the country is in a mood… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
“When about 16 years of age I happened to meet with a book, written by one Tryon, recommending a vegetable diet. I… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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I could not have taken what he took, sliding into second base and having a guy stand over you and spit on… — Vernon Law Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Whenever you see the words 'hee hee hee' in a book, or 'ha ha ha,' or 'har har har,' or 'heh heh… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
My mother's work ethic, her attitude, and the way she treated each and every customer as if they were her best friend… — Bill Capodagli Copy Share Image
As a mother, I love the Leapster handheld because it really delivers on educating children while they play. My daughter enjoys it… — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“People often ask me what advice I have for writers, and I reply that the most important responsibility I believe a writer… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I think if you're impregnated with good literature, with good culture, you're much more difficult to manipulate, and you're much more aware… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I'm a maniacal perfectionist. And if I weren't, I wouldn't have this company… I have proven that being a perfectionist can be… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
The problem is always hard to get through for the characters in books, whether its facing another's past or accepting their mistakes.… — Chloe Loizeau Copy Share Image
“The case studies in the book are not to be emulated so much as absorbed, because developing a mindset is not about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to offer a word of encouragement to authors: You have to feel called to the message of your book enough… — Jud Wilhite Copy Share Image
“It happens that in our phase of civility, the novel is the central form of literary art. It lends itself to explanations… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
Evidently, there are many great American writers. But sometimes it can feel as though American fiction is dominated by relatively linear narrative… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
“The exiled Jews who settled in Babylonia were able to maintain their identity, in part because they were allowed to practice their… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Archie Henderson has won no awards, written no books and never played any representative sport. He was an under-11 tournament-winning tennis player… — Archie Henderson Copy Share Image
I have no perspective as regards my work. One reason I put out records and books is people respond to it, and… — Moby Copy Share Image
