There was a woman on the radio the other day who had wrote a book about how difficult it was in meetings… — Alice Nutter Copy Share Image
You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In… — William James Copy Share Image
I don't see that my age has anything to do with what is between the covers of my book, any more than… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
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Christopher Walken could literally read a phone book and fill a theater, and it would be interesting to watch. I've often wanted… — Gary Cole Copy Share Image
“I tended to fall in love with characters in books. Most guys I went to school with were far too interested in… — Trisha Haddad Copy Share Image
The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything… — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“That’s why the Bible is not a book about going to heaven. The action is here. The life is here. The point… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves,… — Craig Lancaster Copy Share Image
A flop is often the result of the fact that each of the talents involved, while working on the same project, may… — Ethan Mordden Copy Share Image
“Vi?" Jag's soft voice called from the other room. I'd been soaking so long, the water in the tub was cold. I… — Elana Johnson Copy Share Image
“I read daily, not so much for the benefit of my writing, but because I am addicted to it. There is nothing… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“The easiest way to write a book is to use the Table of Contents as an outline. People get stuck when they… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
I admit my reading time is limited because I can write in the situations and places where people usually read. But reading… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Because of A Prayer for Owen Meany, many of my readers assume I am “religious.” I go to church only occasionally—like a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant. And even if it is not… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“Console Wars is a narrative account based on information obtained from hundreds of interviews. Re-creating a story of this nature, which draws… — Blake J. Harris Copy Share Image
I've had my nose in a book my whole life. I never thought it would be useful, but it is now. What's… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
“From the time when the exercise of the intellect became a source of strength and of wealth, we see that every addition… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“I finally found my way to the Really Restricted Section, where they keep the kind of books most scholars aren't even supposed… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“All that can be done is for each of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics; and I would… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“When Stephen King elaborated on his inspirations for his novel "Carrie" he draws from a time when he was a young man,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Readers tell me that my novels are filled with significant mothers. Do I realize this? Do I do it on purpose? The… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“It is the bane, and pleasure when creating Romance fiction, to know immersion and fulfillment for the reader are based on clarity.… — Glenn Hefley Copy Share Image
A nerd will be a nerd all his life. When we did The Nerd Book at National Lampoon, the nerds got picked… — John Hughes Copy Share Image
All the great naturalists have been habitual walkers, for no laboratory, no book, car, train or plane takes the place of honest… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
“Freeman looked up and grinned. “Karl, this author is American and plainly loves twisted language. Listen: ‘The idiot god Azathoth, that last… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“Elliot was trying to teach himself trollish via a two-hundred-year-old book by a man who’d had a traumatic break-up with a troll.… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and… — David Shields Copy Share Image
“Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me… — J. D. salinger Copy Share Image
…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“I don’t think that the definition of library has changed. Libraries have never been repositories solely of books. In Alexandria for instance,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
