“Living as he now lived was like reading a good book in a poor translation...” — Henry James Copy Share Image
The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more. — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
“The apologist can ask what literature and film reveal about the inchoate theological stirrings of our times.” — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings. — Ernst Lubitsch Copy Share Image
“And before any Christian readers get all offended - relax. I'm not saying that I'm the new Jesus. I'm just saying there's… — Danny Wallace Copy Share Image
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity. — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
“First, you don't have to be smart to read books. Lots of idiots read books. Trust me, the ability to read does… — Marie Sexton Copy Share Image
The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Marriagea book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dedicate (donate, give all) your life to something larger than yourself and pleasure - to the largest thing you can: to God,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s,… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
“Literary Fiction and Reality Towards the beginning of his novel The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil announces that 'no serious attempt will… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“Cliff says Sylvia Plath's work is very depressing to read, and that his own daughter had recently suffered through The Bell Jar… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“This book," he began, "is very, very unsuitable." He paused, then went on. "In fact, in my whole life, I have never… — Mark Salzman Copy Share Image
Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Boys forget what their country means by just reading 'The Land of the Free' in history books. Then they get to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The sneaky heftiness of the book being the aggregate cumulative effect of hundreds of thousands of individually insubstantial little markings, letters and… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“There was an odd rule throughout the College that no girl might buy a book.” — Jane Ellen Harrison Copy Share Image
“a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.” — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“Why bother with other people's worlds made of words? was his philosophy.” — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
“Books are road map to your destination called success. Refer to good ones.” — Vikrmn Copy Share Image
