The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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“These young writers nowadays. They spend more time networking to promote their writing careers than writing their books. Maybe that’s why there… — Lauren Carr Copy Share Image
I took to saying, 'Look, tell you what: Pick it up; open it anywhere. Read three pages. If you can put it… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
It's a challenge of to write a narrator who is doing something that is really unlikeable and morally questionable. A lot of… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
In the earlier novels, Steve King tells us that John Farson, and perhaps even the Crimson King himself, are but other names… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
I would be wonderful with a 100-year moratorium on literature talk, if you shut down all literature departments, close the book reviews,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Ellen Langer’s work has been an inspiration to me for years. Counterclockwise, her latest book, will change the way you think about… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
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Life is like a book. There are good chapters, and there are bad chapters. But when you get to a bad chapter,… — Brian Falkner Copy Share Image
“The great question that will be with us throughout this entire book: What did Jesus actually bring, if not world peace, universal… — Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger Copy Share Image
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I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my most… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
Much as I love stories, I think I'll only be satisfied with myself as a writer if I'm able to produce a… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
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It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“It is far easier to launch oneself from a high place in the hope of sprouting wings, than it is to write… — Harrison Davies Copy Share Image
I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
Before I start a book, I talk over my characters with a friend who is a counselor. I like to make sure… — Chevy Stevens Copy Share Image
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“Does it matter that people and things Have words, Have names? If not, Why read any book? A litany of useless letters… — Stasia Ward Kehoe Copy Share Image
“True understanding involves sincere honesty and holistic, deep listening without the political corruption of evil power players. ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
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I don't think that we are completely dominated by what we have inherited from the past, but it is the case that… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do,… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
I get letters from two kinds of readers. History buffs, who love to read history and biography for fun, and then kids… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous… — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
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Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything… — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
“What do you read? I read what friends tell me is good. This explains the book's success, partially. It got very good… — John Berendt Copy Share Image
Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
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