After college, I spent a decade working the kinds of jobs that I write about - bartender, shoe salesman, kitchen man -… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I didn't read Western novels much until I was in my twenties, but I had a diet of them on film and… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship. — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images. — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
“I knew personally many figures in this novel: Harold Urey, who greeted me at the grad students reception at UCSD in 1963;… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them — Paula Danziger Copy Share Image
If I'm reading a book that doesn't leave me with questions, moving questions, that I feel confronted with, then for me it's… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
“I will quote one sentence from this text, namely, the one with which it ended. It was also the sentence which finally… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
“Whether it honors them well or not, an essay’s fundamental obligations are supposed to be to the reader. The reader, on however… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I didn't play music, nobody in my family had an instrument or played music, we didn't even have any books at my… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I do think that I have a sensitivity to the depictions of maybe all minorities in literature. And I think that the… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
The biggest invention of modern time is the book. The book is a digital medium; book text is written in a different… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
“Athenaeum, or Jonathan Edwards at thirteen entering Yale College, and while yet of a tender age shining in the horizon of American… — Charles Stewart Given Copy Share Image
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A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
He's like a book I miss read because I wanted a happy ending instead. I wanted to believe that you would never… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
While I've never asked my publisher to pull one of my books off the shelves, I have deleted tweets or blog posts… — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more. — David Moranis Copy Share Image
“Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose identity the public will never know.” — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
The whole past and the whole world are alive in my heart, and I shall do my part to communicate their presence… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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“The best preacher is the heart; the best teacher is time; the best book is the world; the best friend is God.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Some of the biggest challenges were, page after page, standing naked in front of the reader. — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard. — David Walliams Copy Share Image
Back in the day, when I was starting out, I'd get five or 10 emails and I'd respond to every one. But… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. Edward, Bella, Jacob, etc. but... I… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
“I was a little resentful that when a woman writes, her personal story becomes part of the story, even though the novel… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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