What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“a moving river of light that flowed above the dark water like its negative image and attained a transient and fragile dominion… — William Gay Copy Share Image
I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“In the quiet spaces opened up by the prolonged, undistracted reading of a book, people made their own associations, drew their own… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The Coen brothers said something that helped me, "When you put the book down, you have a certain feeling, a certain understanding.… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
After the first shock of recognition - a sudden sense of "this is what I'm going to write" - the novel starts… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I try very hard to tell stories and not lecture. I try to approach things as an amateur and not an expert,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to… — Bill Porter Copy Share Image
“Readers will recall that the little evidence collected seemed to point to the strange and confusing figure of an unidentified Air Force… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
So before I start work on a book, I'm like a pregnant mole - I obsessively tidy and order my closets and… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I'm pretty omnivorous - in fact, I don't think of books in terms of genres. J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' books are… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
I didn't read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs'… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Everybody talks about being a writer, angel. If every novel conceived on a bar stool made it into print, there wood not… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
“Marriages are like certain books, a story where you turn the last page and you think it's over and then there's an… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past.… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology,… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
I reach readers rather unintentionally, I think, and those readers likely connect with the slant, the off-kilter, the part of the road… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
We were interviewing an author, and we started talking about how so many of them - Salinger, Shaw, Fitzgerald - were really… — Mike Rich Copy Share Image
Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Seine et Danube was launched in 2003 with the help of Romanian authorities who had finally realized the necessity of promoting literature… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
“Indies are doing well because of their willingness to experiment, their willingness to share data and lessons with other writers, and their… — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
“The thing [Henry James'] novel is about is always there. It is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“It had a crisp paper jacket, unlike the paper-covered library books I was used to, and the way the pages parted, I… — Allison Hoover Bartlett Copy Share Image
Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
There's something touching about a kid who's reading a book that's printed on actual paper. I think that anything that kids start… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
“If you read the books then you have no conclusion you do not dare to kick out this idea or theory "wrong",… — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
After I was cast, I decided to read 'Sharp Objects'. I ended up drowning it in sticky notes, highlighter and pen. It… — Eliza Scanlen Copy Share Image
Non-violent ecological activism, scientific research and art are pillars of my experience. But I am also a story-teller. I merge science, and… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
My mom was a model and she would show me her old books, and it was so cool. She would tell me… — Sistine Stallone Copy Share Image
“I shared my office on 57th Street with Dr Jacob Ecstein, young (thirty-three), dynamic (two books published), intelligent (he and I usually… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. If it’s a real dream, you cannot… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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