How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and… — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories?… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I love books where you can't get out of bed. You want to consume them in one sitting, devour them. Those are… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
Today, we are fortunate that the historical novel has reached such extraordinary heights of technical mastery. The ability of society to connect… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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“Here are my politics: I love music and painting; a good book is an event for me; I’m going on forty-four. How… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“I didn’t read to escape. I didn’t even read to be entertained. It was more elemental, more essential than that. I read… — Katie Ray Copy Share Image
“If it is true that there are books written to escape from the present moment, and its meanness and its sordidity, it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There was no Marshall Plan for Harry Potter, no International Financing Facility for books about underage wizards. It is heartbreaking that global… — William Easterly Copy Share Image
“First, relax. ... And my second helpful hint is that you should not try to memorize anything you read in this book.… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
“What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
It's a fairly common phenomenon of London life - people having fully developed critiques of books they haven't read and films they… — Peter Baynham Copy Share Image
FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and… — Beverly Donofrio Copy Share Image
When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I remember how as I kid I would love stories of every kind - whether they were narrated in school or what… — Tahir Raj Bhasin Copy Share Image
I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“It is important to note that going through the motions of answering questions is not critical literacy; rather, critical literacy involves the… — Maureen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“-And there's this twelve thousand dollars item for books. -That supposed to be twelve hundred, the twelve thousand is for paper. towels.… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“You turn the book over in your hands, you scan the sentences on the back of the jacket, generic phrases that don't… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Whatever had happened, she wondered, to the concept of reading as entertainment? Now it appeared to be an endurance contest as to… — Marian Babson Copy Share Image
I don't have much time to read. I'm more of a problem solver. I'll have an idea or a problem, and I'll… — Alan Schaaf Copy Share Image
When somebody says that six million people died in the Holocaust, there is nobody in the world who can understand that. It's… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task.… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I don't know why one author writes westerns while another writes detective novels. You don't know why. You go where the intensity… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“... He who thought at last the books would tell him why people couldn't stay, and how their maps unraveled into ink-dissolving… — Wyatt Prunty Copy Share Image
“The book of Jonah is one of the shortest books in the Bible. Yet, something beneath the surface whispers to us, hinting… — Michael Ben Zehabe Copy Share Image
When I began to read as an adult, I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. I did the Russians, then… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
I would say what you have to do as a screenwriter is strip the book back to find the skeleton. When you've… — David Farr Copy Share Image
Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I had read some books on the Baha'i Faith. I had read - I was looking into Buddhism and trying to understand… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
