“You will criticize me, reader, for writing in a style six hundred years removed from the events I describe, but you came… — Ada Palmer Copy Share Image
My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
“To construct mechanically the brain of a somniferous tale, it is not enough to dissect nonsense & mightily stupefy the reader's intelligence… — Comte de Lautréamont Copy Share Image
It is something wonderful when one can love another author. That happens so rarely, without any kind of misgivings that authors often… — Liao Yiwu Copy Share Image
I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness,… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
They will be given as gifts; books that are especially pretty or visual will be bought as hard copies; books that are… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Obviously there's a lot more to a TV show than just a book... I think adaptations are a bit tricky for the… — Zoe Foster Blake Copy Share Image
Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“This book does not try to “document” any particular aspect of Indian life. To me, doing such a thing would seem a… — Waswo X. Waswo Copy Share Image
“The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There are many things that men and women ought to think about, and must think about, in private, that they would not… — R.A. Torrey Copy Share Image
“These books can’t possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers… — Kirby Wright Copy Share Image
The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic.… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
I was paid more for the serialization rights for each book than I got as an advance for my first novel. In… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“These day's I like to imagine that if a man were to enter through the slash on the book's cover, as if… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
“If the reader doesn't connect with your character, they are not going to connect with the story. I try to make my… — Stacy Thowe Copy Share Image
“Many accepted authors simply do not exist for me. Their names are engraved on empty graves, their books are dummies, they are… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
There was this book that Judi Dench wrote that said there was a moment where, before an actor can be this or… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
Old Testament, is really one of the most wickedest books you'll ever come across. God is an insecure, rage-filled hybrid of Bobby… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“I feel separated and cut off from the world around me, but occasionally I've felt that it was really a part of… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Blogging has mostly been an opportunity to react more immediately to experiences to try out ideas that I may end up using… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
“Seizing a cudgel from the nearest priest, he laid about him like a veritable demon as he forged his rapid way toward… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“We are the girls with anxiety disorders, filled appointment books, five-year plans. We take ourselves very, very seriously. We are the peacemakers,… — Courtney Martin Copy Share Image
We still write too many stories that are "state of the race" stories that are informed almost solely by what the polling… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
The analytical writer observes the reader as he is; accordingly, he makes his calculation, sets his machine to make the appropriate effect… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“It’s like that moment when, often early in the morning, perhaps in a strange house, you pass before a mirror you hadn’t… — Linda Anderson Copy Share Image
Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
When I studied with Nicholas Ray he was always telling us, "If you want to make films, watch a lot of films,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
