“Read, so as to know; speak, so as to teach; write, so as to think!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around. — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
“What the hell? We’re all screwed up some way. At least you bathe and I don’t have to fight you for chicks.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page. — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession. — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
To be quite honest, the joyful relief of the publication of my book was short-lived. — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
Back in '86, '87, Steve Williams and Paul Davis and me were reading a book by Robert Hess called 'Eat to Win,'… — Tony Adams Copy Share Image
“Younger than Morini and Pelletier, Espinoza studied Spanish literature, not German literature, at least for the first two years of his university… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Gandhi seldom taught with the help of books. He did not want to paralyse the pupils' intellect by loading it with book… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever I do today is the whole continuum of my experience. Like John Dewey said in his book ‘Art as Experience,’ you… — Yusef Lateef Copy Share Image
My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When you're somebody who has the pretension to make art, it's completely different from when someone else says I want to make… — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“Being a reader has brought me much joy, laughter, and rich experience. But reading has also wounded me. The sacrament of reading… — Steve Kendall Copy Share Image
“After Bailey came Samuel Johnson, His Cantankerousness. Son of a London bookseller, a university dropout, afflicted with depression and what modern doctors… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
