“We are as liable to be corrupted by books as we are by companions.” — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I like books that explore identity and youth culture or rites of passage. — Emily Weiss Copy Share Image
Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“We read to learn about the world. We write to change the world.” — Lori Jamison Rog Copy Share Image
“I wish Barry Lopez would write novels. from "Conversations with Jim Harrison” — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available. — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Literature, not science or theology, is the master discipline, the paradigm of inquiry, for postmoderns.” — Heath White Copy Share Image
I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so… — Andrew Wyatt Copy Share Image
The author portrays himself in every line he writes and portrayal is always betrayal. — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is not as mirrors reflect us but, rather, as our dreams do, that movies most truly reveal the times. If the… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
First one gets works of art, then criticism of them, then criticism of the criticism, and, finally, a book on The Literary… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
“Purple Mike promises to be an intriguing read that will teach anyone who wants to know about the highs and lows of… — Sin Mils Copy Share Image
Anybody can do research. The plotting of the novel, writing the ending before you write anything else, which I always do -… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“The classic images Shakespeare, Balzac, and Tolstoy created were born from their mental wombs. But today's practitioners of literacture have lost that… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world.… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
Nimzovitch became then for me more or less the author of the only book which could help me get away from these… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
“Far be it from me to keep a woman from her book. That could become dangerous.” — Elizabeth Hunter Copy Share Image
Life is like a Popup Book , getting surprised as you watch things unfold. — Jennifer Amorelli Copy Share Image
I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years. — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
