“I can imagine myself saying at the time that life itself was like a book borrowed from the library—something that did not… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“Do you know why people are reading more books now than ever before? Because the terrific catastrophe of the war has made… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins;… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
You know, I don't think a lot about why one book connects with its readers and another doesn't. Probably because I don't… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“... a novel which I called Pornografia. At that time it wasn’t such a bad title, today, in view of the excess… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in.… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“During my convalescence I had bought and read for the first time, The King in Yellow. I remember after finishing the first… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People shock me when they say they never read. When I was young, if people didn't read they would never admit it.… — Joan Vass Copy Share Image
“I think you’re more an archivist than a librarian,” he said. He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
“The world shown us in books, whether the books be confessed epics or professed gospels, or in codes, or in political orations,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Write as many books as you want, but remember that literature is never about quantity. Even the most popular works fade into… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for this… — Barbara Rosenblat Copy Share Image
Richard Price, who has made a fortune writing fake ghetto books, says he takes a cab into the ghetto, transcribes Black speech… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“What I find most mystifying in the arguments of the authors I have mentioned, and of others like them, is the strange… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“I hate to think of you stuck here all day every day, doing nothing with that brilliant brain of yours.” “It never… — Tessa Hadley Copy Share Image
Any philosophical and theoretical assurance that laughter is unique to the human being becomes somewhat unsure when one turns to the anthropological… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
I change my keyboard between every book. I usually shop around. I'm very passionate about the physical feel of pressing the keys.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies, like children’s… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I like books that are exciting and that make you think about things, as well. I like things that have a twist… — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
Writing is a bit like swimming. You learn writing by doing it and you learn swimming by doing it. Nobody learns how… — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
T.S. Eliot was one of the first poets introduced to me when I started studying literature and has felt like a close… — Penelope Mitchell Copy Share Image
When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
I do think there is great strength, though, in starting a sermon with a story, then returning to that story at the… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“People want black-and-white answers, but Scripture is rainbow arch across a stormy sky. Our sacred book is not an indexed answer book… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
Science which has become a great power in the last century, has analyzed everything divine handed down to us in the holy… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
A book is a human-powered film projector (complete with feature film) that advances at a speed fully customized to the viewer's mood… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. I… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
I like being at home with my music and my books. I’ve done all the partying, I’ve done enough partying for four… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
“I ripped the pages out of the book. I reversed the order, so the last one was first, and the first was… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Jahrling sat down at his desk and sighed. There was a landfill of papers on his desk, mostly about smallpox, and it… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“I don't know why we stopped reading together, but gradually we were not doing it regularly, and then without realizing it was… — Sam Savage Copy Share Image
“transition into some examples that put HTML5 in action: A graphing calculator to display algebraic equations on the Canvas A children’s finger-painting… — Sanders Kleinfeld Copy Share Image
“The first type of man is a follower. He does not have the courage or will to think for himself. The second… — Therone Shellman Copy Share Image
I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge. We may read all the Bibles in the world, but that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
