To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
Hollywood, to hear some writers tell it, is the place where they take an author's steak tartare and make cheeseburger out of… — Fletcher Knebel Copy Share Image
“No, you have been brought up with the lies that books have told you, and granted they are far more comforting and… — Kane X. Faucher Copy Share Image
“Reader! Are you with the man-stealers in sympathy and purpose, or on the side of their down-trodden victims? If with the former,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The wise interpreter allows his knowledge of genres to control how he approaches each biblical passage. In this way, he can accurately… — Ron Rhodes Copy Share Image
I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, & it smells good. Writing is… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Even a cursory reading of the book of Ecclesiastes shows that culture is a stationary bike that each generation climbs on in… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
My job as an author - at least the way I think of it - is to make a story that is… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
People who excel at book learning tend to call up from memory what they have learned in order to follow stored instructions.… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
One question that often comes up is why, in this age of blogs and tweets and instant digital communication of all kinds,… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“The truth!" we demanded. "Oh, the truth," she stammered, "the truth has nothing to do with literature," and sitting down she refused… — Virgina Woolf Copy Share Image
“Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He would sit all night under the lamp, book of the moment in front of him, dictionary and thesaurus on either side,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My grandfather used to say, "Learn to like art, music and literature deeply and passionately. They will be your friends when things… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
“In his great book How to Do Things with Words (1962), J.L. Austin considers the apparently simple sentence "France is hexagonal." He… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just… — Paul Westerberg Copy Share Image
I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
I always tell people, "There's a book on everyone." I get some of that book before I do anything. If I want… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
I read scripts movie, TV and theater. I read every novel that is published. I read every book that comes out on… — Van Heflin Copy Share Image
What I really wanted wasn't what I thought I was supposed to want. It wasn't what people had told me I should… — Sara Benincasa Copy Share Image
He pointed the gun at me. Then he looked up at my hand & tilted his head slightly. - Journey, he said.… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“What is the verdict of the vastest mind? Silence: the book of fate is closed to us. Man is a stranger to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“I once had a book on the stars but now I don't. My memory serves but not stellar, ha. So I made… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Imagine what our culture would be like if Americans sold ideas, words, and books with the same creativity we use to sell… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to see the truth. Everybody wants to have the fantasy. When I look back at the books I was reading… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Knowledge and book learning are not wisdom," said the captain. "Is this book wisdom?" asked Lucy, putting the manuscript back on the… — R.A. Dick Copy Share Image
