“For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace… 1 CORINTHIANS 14:33 KJV” — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.” — Daniel T. O'Hara Copy Share Image
“Feed your soul; books, places, people, anything. That helps it grow.” — M.L. Shanahan Copy Share Image
Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
'Underworld' was my first filmed book. I think there are about seven of my lines in it. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“That’s the only problem with novels,’ Mia said. ‘They give readers such high hopes that the real world can often be a… — Victoria Connelly Copy Share Image
[Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies… — Tom Araya Copy Share Image
We all would love the idea of people getting what's coming to them in books and in life, but sometimes the trajectory… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
“There are some wives who require but a sentence. There are some who require a book. You, Miss Clarke, would require volumes.” — Sally Gunning Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The problem a lot of writers have is that they really, really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Think of it like this. If you are sad because you can't have something you want - maybe a book or a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why do you read then?' Partly for pleasure, because it's a habit and I'm just as uncomfortable if I don't read as… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the single greatest thing I learned from reading the Book of Mormon is that the voice of the Spirit comes as… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
“Don’t bring confusion to my table. Bring flowers. Bring books. Bring cakes. But leave your indecisiveness behind. My heart is not up… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Notes on Names, Transliterations and Titles This book inevitably contains a challenging diversity of names, languages and questions of transliteration. It is… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
You can know everything that the books have to say, but ultimately it boils down to whether we do the inner work… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff. — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing about writing a novel is getting it published.” — Marianne Cushing Copy Share Image
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy. — Johann Heinrich Lambert Copy Share Image