“It pays to be different. If you want to land your dream job, you’ve got to think outside the box. … — Nelson Wang Copy Share Image
That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“There is something magical to me about literature and fiction and I think it can do things not only that pop culture… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
A Ten-Point Plan for Increased Spirituality: 1. Read Scriptures Daily. 2. Pray Fervently and Sincerely. 3. Fast Meaningfully. 4. Retire Early and… — Joe J. Christensen Copy Share Image
“This book is a work of fiction that was given to a pirate after it was retrieved from the future by exotically… — James Marshall Copy Share Image
“There’s a bookcase lining an entire wall. By the window there’s an armchair and another lamp, with a stack of books illuminated… — Sally Thorne Copy Share Image
If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
“A child's parents should be able to forbid their son or daughter from reading a book of mine or anyone else's. However,… — Paul Zindel Copy Share Image
I've been writing the show with Nigel Coan, the director of 'Luxury Comedy', and Tom Meeten. Three's good. With two, you can… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
The first hit on the nervous system is the one I'm most interested in, because I think if you hit the reader… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important.… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I read a lot of scripts. I believe you've got to read one that you know you're not going to do, because… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existence… — Todorov Tzvetan Copy Share Image
I seldom read on beaches or in gardens. You can't read by two lights at once, the light of day and the… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
“Every night I went into Hannah's room and sat with her stuff. The thing I couldn't get was how her clothes and… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“After travelling a few miles, he fell asleep; and Emily, who had put two or three books into the carriage, on leaving… — Eliza Parsons Copy Share Image
“We did photograph albums, best dresses, favourite novels, and once someone's own novel. It was about a week in a telephone box… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The theme that runs through all my books is connection. Connection - physical and non-physical - with other humans, and connection with… — Mary Alice Monroe Copy Share Image
“But see, that's the thing about movies. Nothing is left to the imagination. You read a book, and you see a picture… — Laurie Viera Rigler Copy Share Image
“A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
In the end, of course, all novelists will be judged by their novels, but let's not forget that we will also need… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“I was dissatisfied with my 1967 manuscript and decided to rewrite the book. It was the first of September, and I said… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
For every Book of Job, there's a Book of Leviticus, featuring some of the most boring prose ever written. But if you… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For those of us with a bookish bent, reading is a reflexive response to everything. This is how we deal with the… — Diane Schoemperlen Copy Share Image
“This book does not exist. And if that doesn’t deter you from buying it, then I’m also selling frozen alien flesh, a… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Close your mouth Lily, you look like a codfish." "I can't help it. This place looks like something out of medieval times.… — Marianne Morea Copy Share Image
Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that… — Bible Copy Share Image
A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood… — Bible Copy Share Image
The concept of a midlife crisis is a well known one perpetuated by books and films. And recently the idea of a… — Oliver Robinson Copy Share Image
“No book can be written till it wants to be written, till it shouts to be written, and raises up a persistent… — Jyoti Arora Copy Share Image
“Austin cleared his throat. Given the choice between being with books or people, he'd always choose books. You could always tell what… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
