You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“Her sister Lea had an ancient book of myths and legends, and there was all kinds of info in there - of… — Bethany Lovell Copy Share Image
“Every year, more than 120,000 new books are published in Britain, creating millions of volumes that will never be opened, let alone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Without acquainting me with the language or the literature or the oral family histories which my ancestors had loved, they volunteered to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Orwell says straight, look, in England what comes out in a free country is not very different from this totalitarian monster that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Poetry and code - and mathematics - make us read differently from other forms of writing. Written poetry makes the silent reader… — Stephanie Strickland Copy Share Image
The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“I like the multiplicity of books, because each book is different in the mind of each reader. It's the same with this… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the… — Jean De La Bruyere Copy Share Image
In a world where there are no longer books we have almost all of us read, the movies we have almost all… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
