Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Literature is dead, my boy' the uncle replied. 'Look at these empty rooms, and these books buried in their dust; no one… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“No, no, it's not the books you are looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I suppose my professional life can be split into writing books that all sound like infomercial products, most notably 'The 4-Hour Workweek,'… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
“I recommend readers to be adventurous and to try things they’ve never heard of or considered reading before. Get out of the… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Obviously, there are those in the industry who don't give romance novels the level of respect the sales would warrant. They'll talk… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
We need a president that's focused on the challenges that we're being faced as a nation - not a president that's going… — Doug Burgum Copy Share Image
“Years ago, I stumbled upon a small book entitled Peace of Mind. In it, the author wrote that he does not believe… — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
My job is to get people to write something truthful, something about truth and beauty - wherever they are - and to… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“This book carries the urgency of racing against time, of having important things to say. Paul confronted death—examined it, wrestled with it,… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“And now, O kind-hearted reader, I feel myself constrained, in the telling of this little story, to depart altogether from the principles… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I once, when I was in the middle of making the move from Europe to the U.S., I started trying to put… — King Diamond Copy Share Image
So it was doing all this research or going to the archives or doing all these interviews or traveling, and then trying… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
“She had read too many romantic novels of a dark and dreary bent to really be surprised—The Castle of Otranto was one… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
And I desperately needed books that would take me out of my environment and show me a world where being smart and… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Art and literature need extreme sociality to a degree that even dolphins don't have. We are the only large mammalian species that… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
You can't ever approach a book as a complete virgin, certainly not if you're a critic. There is a lot of bad… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The one critisism the author of Slaugherhouse-Five would make of the young writer was what he called a punctuation problem. Mr. Vonnegut… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Oh god, Anabeth,” Ellie muttered. “Your whole life is based around sex.” “So?” she shot back. “It’s better than having sex with… — Madeline Sheehan Copy Share Image
It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The subject, however various and important, has already been so frequently, so ably, and so successfully discussed, that it is now grown… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it weird?” he said, glancing up as I measured salt. “All the variety that life offers? Here we sit, me reading… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you -… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. -----… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
For seven years I wrote and published my texts on the Internet and no Arab festival invited me and no Arab publishing… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
“We would bestow some pains here in minutely describing all the mad pranks which Jones played on this occasion could we be… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“loved coming here. It always felt so…safe. I was allowed to read any book I wanted. No one interrupted me, or if… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
“The effectiveness of an author turns chiefly upon his getting the reputation that he should be read. But by practicing various arts,… — Arthur Schopenhaur Copy Share Image
In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
“God, Himself, wrote the 10 into stone with his own finger. He told the epic of mankind, our origins and our future,… — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
