“When a game cannot be won, change the game. I read that in the book of Kirk.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
I really didnt intend to become an author, but I just happened to fall into it. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“I happened to pen some literature, alas, in an utterly unliterary era.” — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I do read a lot of autobiographies and biographies but from people who are not in my field - older women, older… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something. — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader. — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I inhaled books, and reading has always been my one true love. — Rosie Jones Copy Share Image
“It is as if I have entered what the Tibetans call the Bardo-literally, between-two-existences- a dreamlike hallucination that precedes reincarnation, not necessarily… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“Overnight, the city managed to procure thousands of cardboard boxes, fifteen hundred hard hats, a few thousand rolls of packing tape, and… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“You want recognition? I mean real recognition? Your life story in all the papers, your face on television all over the country.… — Shane Stevens Copy Share Image
“I discovered news of old horrors in old books; read intelligence of old atrocities in old periodicals; always in the back of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
At conventions, one of the standard questions I get is, 'Are you writing any new novels?' To which I used to respond,… — Peter David Copy Share Image
“Tori glanced at the clock and bit back a curse. Hannah didn't need to learn any more bad words from her own… — E.M. Gayle Copy Share Image
“I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
“There is massive evidence that self-selected reading, or reading what you want to read, is responsible for most of our literacy development.… — Krashen Stephen D Copy Share Image
I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“I slipped into art to escape life. I sneaked off into literature.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read. — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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