“J. E. Littlewood, a mathematician at Cambridge University, wrote about the law of truly large numbers in his 1986 book, "Littlewood's Miscellany."… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“Under the Volcano” embraces everything from Dante to Freud to the cabala. Here it shambles like Cervantes, there it rages like Ahab,… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
“When I come home and look back through my Book of Books I see a personal narrative I didn’t recognize at the… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“She wasn't all that interested, as a reader, in the reader. She was still partial to that increasingly eclipsed entity: the writer.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I could never really choose a favorite book, but whenever I'm asked what my favorite movie is, I always say 'Withnail &… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
What we accepted as great art - whether the book, the script, the painting, the symphony - is that which could be… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
“Polly Partial handed me a piece of paper printed on all sides with confusing times and locations. It looked like a herd… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is no figure who had more of an influence, no person had more of an influence on the intellectuals behind the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It would be very hard to write a serious drama and say some of these things. You can be much more abstract… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
Radar threw his books into his locker and shut it. Then the din of conversation around us quieted just a bit as… — John Green Copy Share Image
I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
No doubt, clinical practice in alleviating malaria symptoms utilizing Qinghao - inherited from traditional Chinese medical literature - provided some useful information… — Tu Youyou Copy Share Image
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
[The Yellow Birds] is based on a novel written by Kevin Powers, who is an Iraq War vet. I play a soldier… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Im really into superheroes and the comic book illustration concept, and with this album I kinda wanted to play along with that.… — Ciara Copy Share Image
I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the best problem… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
“His routine was fixed. A morning spent reading books, then a sandwich in front of the local lunchtime news and an afternoon… — Sarah Stovell Copy Share Image
It's always a challenge to discover the most effective first sentence, and the most effective final sentence, in a chapter for instance,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
In novels in general - and also on the television - we do live in a world where bodies is what we… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I was already doing a lot of splendid research reading all the books about ghosts I could get hold of, and particularly… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
I wonder what really goes on in the minds of Church leadership who know of the data concerning the Book of Abraham,… — Thomas Ferguson Copy Share Image
“There is more treasure n books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“What made Madeleine sit up in bed was something closer to the reason she read books in the first place and had… — Jeffrey Eugenides The Marriage Plot Copy Share Image
I went into writing 'The Young Elites' with a great deal of fear - I'd been told repeatedly that a villain's story… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The characters in my novels, from the very first one, are always on some quixotic effort of attempting to control something that… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“History only became more challenging when it became less neat. Every time I pick up a book or document from the past,… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Some TV shows are like really good novels in that there are enough episodes that you start to have your own feelings… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“I opened the book to the title page, which said the book was "A Fictional Memoir." I had no idea what this… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
The Festival of Books is indeed a well-oiled machine, one which leaves most of the other literary festivals in America, including vaunted… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
So your taking a shower and you put on a towel to go to yOur room you walk out the door and… — Delanie Hook Copy Share Image
“Utter objectivity...is not only impossible when judging literature, it’s not exactly desirable. Fiction involves trace elements of magic; it works for reasons… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the book, D'Artagnan doesn't actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end, and we make quite a big thing… — Adrian Hodges Copy Share Image
![“Polly Partial handed me a piece of paper printed on all sides with confusing times and locations. It looked like a herd of numbers having a square dance. I would rather have reread her book [To Kill a Mockingbird] than Stain'd-by-the-Sea's confusing train schedule, but just barely.” quote by Lemony Snicket](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9d2/lemony-snicket-663_allusion_polly-partial-handed-me-a-piece-of-paper_2840630.jpg)
![“[The Yellow Birds] is based on a novel written by Kevin Powers, who is an Iraq War vet. I play a soldier who promises my friend's mother I'm going to keep him alive. But when we go overseas to Iraq, he gets killed. It's about what happened to him, my reckoning and dealing with that as I return…” quote by Alden Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/53a/alden-ehrenreich-2752_alive_the-yellow-birds-is-based-on-a-novel-wri_1412364.jpg)
![“I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought to get the rights, which was pretty fun and an incredible experience in itself.” quote by John Krasinski](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a6b/john-krasinski-4756_book_i-fell-in-love-with-the-book-brief-inter_460206.jpg)
