I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“Because they don't have the weapon. I mistranslated those lines in the book. You are the weapon.” — Jodi Meadows Copy Share Image
If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
“I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom. ” — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“The author explores the result of endless choice. It is not only overload, but a profound loss of unity, solidity, and coherence… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books. — John Cage Copy Share Image
When the book is over, I think of innovative marketing ways to reach to a larger audience. I think wine and cheese… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
I always dread the process of writing because I'm not a writer. I'm an audible guy, I'm a verbal guy. I love… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“I found the world of the Little House books to be so much less confusing, not just because it was "simpler," as… — Wendy McClure Copy Share Image
“One of the most brilliant Russian writers of the twentieth century, Yevgeny Zamyatin belongs to the tradition in Russian literature represented by… — Mirra Ginsburg Copy Share Image
All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is… — David Novak Copy Share Image
Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment.… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Based on personal experience and not just on theory, Prayerwalk, offers readers practical insights on how to get up, get moving, and… — Robin Jones Gunn Copy Share Image
Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
My two goals are to read everything Edith Wharton has ever written and to have an art collection. — Kellie Martin Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like the smell of books, both new and old. If someone ever bottled the smell, I would be all… — Tiffany King Copy Share Image
The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I always tell my little sister after high school all the 'cool kids' will wanna be you, just keep your nose in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time. — William Landay Copy Share Image
Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it? — George Fox Copy Share Image
“Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread.” — Mark W Boyer Copy Share Image
Not every book should be a compass. Some should be a pair of wax wings to soar and escape, if only for… — DH Lawrence Copy Share Image
“She summoned a demon. "Tell me," she demanded, "a comforting truth." "There will always be another book to read." "Always?" "Always.” — MicroSFF Copy Share Image
“To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. —ANDRÉ MAUROIS” — Harville Hendrix Copy Share Image
I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“Actually, it is amazing how much can be learned about people from the books they own.” — Mitch Cullin Copy Share Image
My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author. — Ventseslav Konstantinov Copy Share Image
“Books bombarded his shoulders, his arms, his upturned face. A book lit, almost obediently, like a white pigeon, in his hands, wings… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“a dozen...chocolate chip cookies...a pot of coffee, and a good book are all I will need for the rainy weekend rolling in.” — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
“The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you… — Mark Houlahan Copy Share Image
“Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas.” — Semen Frank Copy Share Image
“I don't care if only a handful of people read my books, the stories must be told. I will never give up… — Christy Sloat Copy Share Image
“Read Frank’s poem, “Advice to the Players.” It talks about all of this, about the human need to create.” — James Franco Copy Share Image
