The books that I'm writing, you can write them only when you're amongst your people. You're not going to find it on… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“Once the writer was at the deathbed of a fellow writer. What interested his dying colleague more than anything else was what… — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics… — John Scott Copy Share Image
“Blanche Ingram, after having repelled, by supercilious taciturnity, some efforts of Mrs Dent and Mrs Eshton to draw her into conversation, had… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“John Keats said, ‘Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather, and a little music played out of doors by somebody I… — Jean-Pierre Alaux Copy Share Image
“Joel Bakan, author of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power argues that if corporations have 'person hood' under the… — M.E. Thomas Copy Share Image
It is rare and very inspiring that a head of state would make such an investment of time to write a book… — Keiko Fukuda Copy Share Image
And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo.… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It was the books I started reading. It was the music I started listening to. It was the television I started watching.… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Books—the closeness of them, their contact, their smell, and their contents—constitute the safest refuge against this world of horror. They are the… — Tahir Djaout The Last summer of Reason Copy Share Image
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have one very bad experience with a U.K. publisher, who gave it out to be understood that she wanted to publish… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The real difference between literature and pulp is the kind of emotional responses they elicit. Dan Brown can't pierce your heart. Patricia… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said:… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew -- in the incontestable way that children know things… — Martha Cooley Copy Share Image
My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination,… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
Blackness, any sort of difference, is not a burden. Relegating blackness or other sorts of difference to serious books that explicitly engage… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the novel as a medium has a very low signal-to-noise ratio. By which I mean: there are… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
My books are always tactical, bullet lists, this is what you need to do because I'm trying to appeal to people who… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
What did it mean to be called “lord”? I’ll assume you’ve never had the honor, since I doubt any of you happen… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Come here, Cal," she says real gentle, and I come close. Read me something." I open up the book I'm holding, a… — Heather Henson Copy Share Image
I always enjoyed doing monster books. Monster books gave me the opportunity to draw things out of the ordinary. Monster books were… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions;… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
“There are a large number of people in the room, but one is unaware of them. They are in the books. At… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades,… — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
“A story is alive, as you and I are. It is rounded by muscle and sinew. Rushed with blood. Layered with skin,… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
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“It's been about six months since I've had something in a cast. Kids at school laugh and call me a klutz. This… — Hannah Moskowitz Copy Share Image
Wal-mart started selling “Vampire Home Defense Kits”, including holy water, crosses, stakes, mallets, and a book of quick blessings to bar vampires… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
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Children's books are looked on as a sideline of literature. A special smile. They are usually thought to be associated with women.… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
“As for 'too much description,' well, opinions differ. We write the books we want to read. And I want to read books… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in… — Charles Anthon Copy Share Image
At home, my parents were quite old, so the surrounding was of elder people. There was no noise. Reading books was encouraged;… — Kalki Koechlin Copy Share Image
