If one of my kids reads a book for school and I can have a conversation with her about the book and… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Everything you've ever read of mine is first-draft. This is one of the peculiarities of the comics field. By the time you're… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
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I decided if I couldn't be a writer, my life would be miserable. I had this imaginary room of references to all… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
Freud believed that our dreams sometimes recapitulate a speech, a comment we've heard or something that we've read. I always had compositions… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
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“Say you’re at home and you want something, like a book, so you go online and order it from Amazon. Two days… — Karen McQuestion Copy Share Image
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I write my novels in English first; then they are translated into Turkish by professional translators. Then I take their translation and… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Giving a reader a sex scene that is only half right is like giving her half a kitten. It is not half… — Sandra Newman Copy Share Image
When soured by disappointment we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and pleasing course of study, that there may be no blank… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“In other words, I mean the formal aspect of a work that has made it possible for critics of all affiliations (Marxist,… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
I think it’s time to open the books, on questions that have remained in the dark on the question of government investigations… — John Podesta Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the origins of the religious experience, how the history of religion has evolved over the last umpteen thousand years,… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;- All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong,… — Henry Austin Dobson Copy Share Image
“Patience’s own books were a far more eclectic and battered collection. There was a book on horseshoeing and smithing, with notes in… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I still have a fondness for books. Many a time I will be antiquing, and I'll say, 'What's that old-timey curio over… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I really admire people who don’t need to live surrounded by lots of stuff. My bedroom is piled up with clothes and… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You've read some of the poems in this new unpublished book [Walker's Alphabet], e.g., the poem "C." I have a number of… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our… — Avi Arad Copy Share Image
I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
“I can relate to the novelist Carrie Brown...who described herself as being 'a promiscuous reader.' I'll give almost any book a chance… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
I have tried reading the Bible but that's a tough read there. I watch a lot of religious documentaries. I have a… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Life is like a good book... some chapters engaging, some funny, some sad and some challenging...However, its all left to the design… — Nirmala Kasinathan Copy Share Image
By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters,… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
there are people who are born superficial ... They prefer not to have to deal with more than a limited number of… — Gwethalyn Graham Copy Share Image
The point about sales is relevant because it suggests there are cultures out there that are supporting and consuming, on a vast… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
Don't cry." "How can I not?" I asked him. "You just said you loved me." "Well, why else did you think all… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine of Aragon, and… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invention of Wings' was the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I published so many books, which, for years, didn't get published here in America, at all - and which barely got any… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“ Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your angel has… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
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The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image