“To tell people what to read is, as a rule, either useless or harmful; for the appreciation of literature is a question… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You can't write a book and just expect it to sell itself, you know. We're not building that better mousetrap and waiting… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
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During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists,… — George Andrew Olah Copy Share Image
What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
I'd only read a bit of the first book. And I just knew about all the media furor over it. But I'd… — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“This idea that the buying, or even the reading, of books is an expensive hobby and beyond the reach of the average… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I once wrote a book on women in science. I realized when I was interviewing them that they were the equivalent of… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“I knew from books, movies, and Sex and the City how I was supposed to answer. I’ve always dreamed of living here,… — Stephanie Danler Copy Share Image
“Dear Delphine, When you are older I want you to find Chinua Achebe. I want you to read Things Fall Apart. Don't… — Rita Williams-Garcia Copy Share Image
“It asked readers, "Hot pink dress-is it a do or a don't?" Now here's my question about this poll: who cares? If… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
“But the room is cold, the words in the books are cold; And the question of whether we get what we ask… — Weldon Kees Copy Share Image
I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“A novel is in its broadest definition a personal, a direct impression of life: that, to begin with, constitutes its value, which… — Henry James Copy Share Image
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Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Eliza—” I said, “so many of the books I’ve read to you said love was the most important thing of all. Maybe… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I came home one day and Nick was in his bedroom reading 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' and the tears were just flowing… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
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For me, what I am making in the novel is a place to live. When I first switched from poetry to novels,… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“The keys to life are running and reading. When you're running, there's a little person that talks to you and says, "Oh… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
TV and film were always governing passions of mine, and that first wave of great HBO shows in the early years of… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“Another Kilgore Trout book there in the window was about a man who built a time machine so he could go back… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am actually hoping to write a series of books! The Amazon was the first one I got finished and have managed… — Helen Skelton Copy Share Image
Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life -… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Think about the way you go surfing on the Internet - you go from one thing to another. You can't really concentrate.… — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
Is this a topic whose time has truly come? The integration of science and religion? Or have I just written a clever… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
“He looked around at the others…They were all staring at their computers, or reading books or newspapers. Not one of them has… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I went on to write my graduate thesis on the ["Montgomery Story"] comic book itself. It was the first long-form history that… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
One person reads the book, and cannot help telling a friend. That is vastly superior to any kind of advertisement, or clever… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
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