People think writing is a very distinguished, cerebral thing, where all you do is write. It doesn't work that way. People have… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I was first published as a paranormal author back in the early 1990s. I was one of the founders of that original… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“I guess they were telling the truth when they said you carried forbidden books to the factory." "Who said so?" asked Pavel.… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
“This is because white people need to show off the books that they have read. Just as hunters will mount the heads… — Christian Lander Copy Share Image
“Reading is not as insignificant as we claim. First we must steal the key to the library. Reading is a provocation, a… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
We had absolutely no experience in writing kids books and its a very competitive market. But we buy and read a lot… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
That movie [A Series of Unfortunate Events] told four books in two hours, and we have two hours per book. So we… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as I begin… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
“I've been deflecting Calypso's blushes all day. I don't have the energy to deflect yours," he said through clenched teeth. "So either… — T.L. McCallan Copy Share Image
Dear Roberta Sparrow, I have reached the end of your book and... there are so many things that I need to ask… — Donnie Darko Copy Share Image
“Yes, our Father has a plan, Ciminae,” he said. “But he leaves it up to his children to accept his will. It… — Shaun F. Messick Copy Share Image
“The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical value: the essence of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have seen and drawn dying, poisoned worlds. I published a book of drawings called 'Death of Wood' about one such world,… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t a lonely kid—I was good at being alone. I’d read books, play with the toy that I had, make up… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when one cannot stand the story or novel one is working on, it helps to write something else—a different story or… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
“Only later did other scholars, notably Nathan Glazer and Daniel Moynihan in their perceptive book Beyond the Melting Pot (1963), highlight the… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“So I stood around that big square of books. Standing around books, even books in a foreign language, you feel a kind… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
The only way to read a book of aphorisms without being bored is to open it at random and, having found something… — Prince De Ligne Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel mimics what we bring to our journey of life. God is the great editor who purges the faulty, the… — Denise M. Baran-Unland Copy Share Image
“The literature on African-American men’s health has often been informed by a “health behavior framework” as opposed to a “social determinants of… — Clare Xanthos Copy Share Image
You can't have a novel without real, believable people, and once you get into either too theoretical a novel or too philosophical… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I'm glad that so many of Donald Pease's unique and revealing insights on Dr. Seuss--observations he shared with me on camera with… — Ron Lamothe Copy Share Image
Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
“You're a witness. You're always standing around watching what's happening, scribbling in your book what other people do. You have to get… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
In the opening chapters of the Book of Revelation the Apostle John tells us how on the Isle of Patmos he was… — Roy Hession Copy Share Image
“Once in every few publishing seasons there is an Event. For no apparent reason, the great heart of the Public gives a… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“ONE AFTERNOON DURING THAT FINAL SPRING, AFTER SHE HAD TURNED THIRTY AURA TURNED TO ME FROM HER DESK WHILE I LAY ON… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten.… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image