The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Book publishing was never a heaven "run by editors", and it is by no means today a hell "run by accountants." If… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
In my later novels, I systematically used the convention, and then a moment came - when did it come? With The Book… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I'm just doing what I've done my whole life, which is talking to people about books and making them read. It's what… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
You’re probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature. Also… — John Barth Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'The Vault of Horror.' They… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
“The Book of Enoch is an ancient Jewish text, which indeed elaborates on the cryptic verse from Genesis 6:4: “The Nephilim were… — Joseph Finley Copy Share Image
I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I didn't get that power from gunz..coz there's no gunz in jail..I got that power from books and from thinking and strategizing…… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Slamming the book shut produces a wind on the face, a weather that is copyrighted by the author, and this wind may… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
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As a writer I am proud that if you took my last four books, and they didn't have my name on them,… — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy .… — William James Copy Share Image
A scientist's life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
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“The bat-and-ball problem is our first encounter with an observation that will be a recurrent theme of this book: many people are… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore,… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Gone are the days when a publisher could take out an ad, count on a few reviews, and have an author do… — John Searles Copy Share Image
Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I'm totally open to it being a movie or a television series or whatever, but truthfully, if no one wants to do… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
I recall that I had a terrible struggle finding anything antireligious in the school libraries.But many years later my family moved into… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Around A.D. 930, the sages in Tiberias assembled all 24 holy books and completed the writing of the codex, the first definitive… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
“But, after a while, I actually began to enjoy reading those books, because we were very poor. But between the covers of… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
It was very risky and quite courageous to write a book about winning when I was still to win my first title.… — Unai Emery Copy Share Image
Are my characters copies of people in real life? ... Don't ever believe the stories about authors putting people into novels. That… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The crime genre's always been regarded very well by the literary end of the book world, whereas horror, although it had that… — Peter James Copy Share Image
“There had been a time when words had been the only place he could find solace. No book ever lost patience with… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Westboro would quote this passage from the book of Leviticus that, for them, shows that the definition of 'love thy neighbor' is… — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
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My debut book is a collection of personal stories and advice about communication on the Internet. More specifically, the downfall of communication… — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
I've heard people have written books of me. People don't even know me, but they've written a book on me. You ever… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
“I wish we weren't like this. You know, demon, demon-hunter. I wish I'd met you in a normal high school, and taken… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged,… — Lee Loevinger Copy Share Image
I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of… In literature, as in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly lazy. On a day off, I'm more likely to be sitting on our sofa reading a book than out and… — Phoebe Fox Copy Share Image
