“I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books:… — Mark Mathabane Copy Share Image
Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
“A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the realm of human possibilities, everything… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
She smiled at him. “How did you know just what I’d want to see?” “How could I not?” he said. “When I… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Most of all I grieve for my soul because even though I do, finally, believe there is a God, and that I… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
It is better to study the books of world instead of dealing with the books of your own mind as it is… — Fadi Copy Share Image
I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life and there has never been a time… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“I’m going to consult some witches’ books. Not that I have many here to consult. But I’m not going to Bryn’s house.… — Kimberly Frost Copy Share Image
A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Read the classics one hour every day, drunk or sober. Reading the classics gives one a feeling of confidence. It familiarizes one… — Richard Haynes Copy Share Image
“No time for books, no patience. What good would they do? They don’t tell you how to survive.” “No, they don’t do… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. And rightly so. The scientist addresses an… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
I've always done more than I ever thought I would. Becoming a professor - I never would have imagined that. Writing books… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“The day came when she discovered sex, sensuality, and literature; she said, 'I submit! Let my life be henceforth ruled by poetry.… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Putting out a book is absolutely a lesson in vulnerability because it doesn't matter how much of an audience you have. Some… — Luvvie Ajayi Copy Share Image
“Every book is an alchemical creation, and I'm thinking back to 1857 when Herman Melville arrived in Greece and saw the Parthenon… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
“A journalist who says, 'Well, I pissed off both sides--I must be doing something right,' is probably fooling himself and, worse, he… — Joe Sacco Copy Share Image
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you want the motivation back, you must feed it Feed it everything. Books, television, movies, paintings, stage plays, real-life experience. Sometimes… — Francesca Zappia Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“What are we to do with the knowledge that Tayo was once a woman? That Ceremony held but abandoned considerable investments in… — David L. Moore Copy Share Image
I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have… — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
I love the Internet, but it's hard not to get lost in it. It's not like a book where you start and… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment.… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
"Someone": I understood that this was a character who in her own life her voice hadn't much been heard and in literature… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“[[diving into the wreck]] First having read the book of myths, and loaded the camera, and checked the edge of the knife-blade… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. A half-remembered line is echoed by another for reasons… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Whatever evolution this or that popular character has gone through between the book covers, his fate is fixed in our minds, and,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
While life is meant to test, challenge, and strengthen us, if we are attempting to negotiate the twists and turns and ups… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
“A memory came to me. One time, in middle school, a famous author came to talk to our class and give a… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“I seriously doubt that the smile is our species’s “happy” face, as is often stated in books about human emotions. Its background… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
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