“If you start reading some book, even a very easy one, or listen to the clearest lecture in the world, with excessive… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
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“The truly great books are flawed: The Brothers Karamazov is unwieldy in structure; a present-day editor would probably want to cut the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
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People who've read my reviews know my tastes, know how I approach a book, know my background. I can write with believable… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
When my younger son was 13 years old, he asked me to read 'Swallows and Amazons' to him while he made models.… — Michelle Magorian Copy Share Image
“Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
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I was a terrible reporter. The only advantage was I made all my mistakes in a place and at a time where… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I have never… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“I find it sad that more Christian literature does not address miracles, and the possibility of demons in our midst. Jesus performed… — D.L. Koontz Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the… — Thomas Bowdler Copy Share Image
To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down,… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
John Stuart Mill, in his wonderful 1859 book On Liberty, talks about civility. And this is why you should always be concerned… — Greg Lukianoff Copy Share Image
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Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Once you know a habit exists, you have the responsibility to change it . . . others have done so . .… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I… — LaMarr Woodley Copy Share Image
Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
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When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
“In TIME June 7, 2010 On the sustainability of the publishing industry, in the Chicago Tribune: "I think that book publishing is… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often… — Gary Frank Copy Share Image
There are always differences when you adapt a novel to a film. A novel is longer so you're automatically cutting out elements… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible.… — Frank Conroy Copy Share Image
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
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