“There’s strength in observing one’s miniaturization. That you are insignificant and prone to, and God knows, dumb about a lot. Because doesn’t… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas,… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
It's a very different thing when you're able to read something and see it in your mind, then to imagine it on… — Jonathan Mostow Copy Share Image
When the history books are written in a thousand years, when space travel would have become routine, the moment that humans first… — Helen Sharman Copy Share Image
I use to be called fagget loser emo fagget when I was younger I was a disgrace, and now everyone wants to… — Damien Cantrell Copy Share Image
If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“Adventuring turned out to be boring. Zach thought back to all the fantasy books he'd read where a team of questers traveled… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I grew up in Greeley, Colorado, in a house without a television set. I was a very nerdy kid: I used to… — Harper Reed Copy Share Image
“...I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how innocent and natural it was for them to behave abominably, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Slightly embarrassing admission: Even when I was a kid, I used to have these little spy books, and I would, like, see… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
I remember when I was young, in the north, they went to the grammar school little children: they came from thence great… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
I hope I have a few years left in my 'last days,' but whether I do or do not, I want it… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
The novel is final form; it's the ultimate individual final form. Television and motion pictures never get there. You'd be fabulous to… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
In Iceland, book lives matter in every sense of that phrase: The shelf-life of the book, the lives in the book, the… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Snake Street is an area I should avoid. Yet that night I was drawn there as surely as if I had an… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
“Art is a site of wonder and discovery—or rediscovery. Art is a place where we might learn what we think, not a… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“And why? Is our genius only in our wombs? Can we not write books and create learned scholarship and perform music and… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“I remembered what it is I like about sex: what I like about sex is that I can lose myself in it… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“You’re also finding out something as you read that will be vitally important for making your way in the world. And it’s… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Proof, being the highest level of reproduction activity, has an important interiorization aspect: as Yuri Manin stresses in his book Provable and… — Alexandre Borovik Copy Share Image
“The idea that people can be improved by being offended will finally have to meet the idea (espoused some of the time… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Seven months after Grant’s death, Julia received a whopping $200,000 check from Twain and $450,000 in the end—an astonishing sum for book… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
In the lead-up to the launch of my new book I Was Here, I’ve seen a lot of discussion about depression and… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“Shifters In Love brings you another great collection of full-length shifter romance stories from USA Today and NYT bestselling authors, Hot Summer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have… — Richard Helms Copy Share Image
I'm not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I'm told it should be good… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of people in the world, those who re-read and those who don’t. No, don’t be silly, there are… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Ultimately, there's always been a link between comic books and video games, and comic books and movies, and then basically all three… — Troy Duffy Copy Share Image
I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“Books make their greatest mark when they reach readers in their growing years. The young look everywhere for that ground of truth… — Milton Meltzer Copy Share Image
Now that I think about it, I was arrested in 1992. Some people may think of that as a bad thing, but… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
I enjoy the research element. There are so many stories from the past that interest me, that I want to learn more… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“While the mystery element is central to each of Miss Warner’s books, she never thought of them as strictly juvenile mysteries. She… — Gertrude Chandler Warner Copy Share Image
I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before dropping out… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“The weapons of our warfare, and which alone are powerful to break down the strongholds of error, are not carnal, but spiritual.… — John Newton Copy Share Image
