“How do I know a really good book? When, between the pages, I come undone.” — Marcia Whyte Copy Share Image
“The question is not whether he read James, but which James he read.” — Michael S. Reynolds Copy Share Image
Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books. — Brent Runyon Copy Share Image
She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Sometimes to think about why some institutions are stable, it's interesting to go one generation back and look at the author of… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
“What do they know anyway? You’ll read it in a book What do they know anyway? You’ll read it in a book… — Belle & Sebastian Copy Share Image
If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“The parrot had a range of phrases. His own name ('Niko, Niko'), the name of his original owner and now 'Stavros'. Occasionally… — Victoria Hislop Copy Share Image
to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“You know, old books are a big problem for us. Old knowledge in general. We call it OK. Old knowledge, OK. Did… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Yet again, the heroine of the novel is a lovely young woman thwarted in her creative capacities by marriage to an old… — Olivia Shakespear Copy Share Image
“...indeed it is in the General Cemetery that the results of progress are set out before the eyes of the studious or… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
I suspect many readers might associate [Bob Dylan] with one of the shortest phases of his career, the time from 1963 to… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“There's no way to tell if Ryan Gosling is actually a feminist; feminism is a serious business, and something you have to… — Danielle Henderson Copy Share Image
“My fortune read, It’s never too late to become what one could have been.” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading. — Henry Green Copy Share Image
Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“A person's books are private, not to be poked around by others at will.” — Kate Furnivall Copy Share Image
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