Writing takes gall. I like to think that's true even for writers with several books under their belt, writers who have been… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Dispersal was a conscious strategy of the plunderers. Only by destroying these collections could they build up new ones. Many of these… — Anders Rydell Copy Share Image
It took years after I’d graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than books, that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Under the word refuge , I found this definition: "Small structure high in the mountains where climbers can spend the night." In… — Jacques Poulin Copy Share Image
I've seen 13, 14-year-olds opening CDs as though they're records from the 1920s, going 'Look at this - there's a little book!'...… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“Extra-canonical literature ... written in Aramaic have survived in another language, or in an Aramaic which is considerably removed from the original… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
“Books are a form of magic—” the doctor lifted the volume he had just laid on the stack, “—because they span time… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
Naturally, you don't sit down in "white hot inspiration" and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
There are some people that say I need to be more academic in my teaching, I need to be more disciple developing… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really… — Candice Accola Copy Share Image
“[…]when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There are loads of novels that I really love, like Haruki Murakami's books, and when I read them, I do think about… — Makoto Shinkai Copy Share Image
I won't usually just sit down to write. I'd have done it in my head already. I visualise a story just like… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I am always considering the reader. Although this is admittedly kind of odd: Which reader? On what day? In what mood? For… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
And through meditation comes wisdom - not through studying books, not through scriptures. Through scriptures one can become knowledgeable but no wise.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
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I read 'Red Dragon' back in high school. I love Thomas Harris' approach to the crime thriller that crossed over into horror… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small town with a very small library. But the books in the library opened a large place… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book,… — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Like the moon, the novel is a symbol and a necessary reality. Ideally it serves neither gods nor masters. Philosopher’s stone, it… — Rikki Ducornet Copy Share Image
I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the… — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
The designation is useful and necessary and sometimes limiting but it is only limiting to people who think, for example, that African-American… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation.… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
“Okay, it's like this. You wake up, you watch TV, and you get in the car and you listen to the radio.… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Sue Grafton's 'A Is for Alibi', the 1982 novel that introduced the world to private detective Kinsey Millhone, wasn't seen as the… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
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