There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While… — Bernie Taupin Copy Share Image
writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Victoria Devane," she said aloud. "I'm Victoria." Her lips moved in countless repetitions of the sounds... her name, her real name. It… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“Drugs and Alcohol, although a crutch, have been the downfall of some of our greatest authors, artists & performers. These mind altering,… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Whenever someone casually refers to “the history of civilization” in a way that does not jibe with the history of civilization as… — Jennifer Wright Copy Share Image
“I have often been mildly amused when I think that the great American novel was not written about New England or Chicago.… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“Here’s a sentence in a book I’m reading: ‘We belong, of course, to a generation that’s seen through things, seen how futile… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
“He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the… — Dorothy B. Hughes Copy Share Image
'Goodnight Moon' is a staple of any nursery bookshelf. So, too, are 'Harold and the Purple Crayon' and 'Madeline.' These books are… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
One of the things that has puzzled me the most in my years of serious mystery reading is why there are relatively… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are… — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
“I had to recommend only two books that every sincere, concerned American, Liberal or Conservative, should read, they would be A Republic,… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until… — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
'Established' is a good word, much used in garden books, 'the plant, when established' ... Oh, become established quickly, quickly, garden! For… — Ursula Bethell Copy Share Image
I do everything from home. I broadcast commentaries for CBS News Radio every day - from home, on a disk that I… — Charles Grodin Copy Share Image
“A re-read is more leisurely than a first read. I know the plot, after all, I know what happens. I may still… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older,… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“Consider how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There are two women inside Miss Duvall," he said stonily. "There's the one you find in that book, experienced, jaded, greedy... a… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“A Long Way from Chicago is the funniest book I have read in a while. You will enjoy the antics of Grandma… — Robert Peck Copy Share Image
“There were grandfather clocks and these things that were sort like half-grandfather clocks, and so many cuckoo clocks I suddenly felt like… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
My idea is simply - is very simple - is that the books of poetry should be published in far greater volume… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Jesus cries out seven times to the seven churches mentioned in the book of Revelation, He who has an ear, let him… — GODDEY WILSON Copy Share Image
In an age when all that was old seems new again, Bernard DeVoto's The Hour couldn't have made a more timely reappearance.… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
But you want to know about the influence of books on my life, and as I've said, there was only one. Seneca.… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
I'd never really considered doing young-adult novels, but one of the things that a friend pointed out to me is that I've… — Michelle Gagnon Copy Share Image
By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“On writing, my advice is the same to all. If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they'd liked… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
So every so often, when I meet someone who's honestly appalled by my books and doesn't understand why they would be attractive… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“But the central branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library was still a place of wonders to Tess, even if the book… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
I also encourage my students to read literary criticism that is deeply personal yet formally inventive and intellectually expansive... books that offer… — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
“Dear reader, you've never been a character in a novel, especially not a female character created by a man. You don't understand… — Yeng Pway Ngon Copy Share Image
“There is more empty space in the book you're holding, than book. The electrons in the atoms of the book are moving… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
