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In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It's better to be nominated for awards than not to be nominated for them, but of course to some degree such awards… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“it’s really just taking action—whether that’s approaching someone you’re intimidated by or deciding to finally crack a book on a subject you… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“I'd always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“Oh, monsters are scared', said Lettie. 'And as for grown-ups...' She stopped talking, rubbed her freckled nose with a finger. Then, 'I'm… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Reading wasn't an attempt to educate myself. It was my chief escape from a world that, although gorgeous in landscape and rich… — Chris Offutt Copy Share Image
“Ann Patchett about the lack of a fiction Pulitzer winner this year. "Let me underscore the obvious here: Reading fiction is important.… — Lynne Marshall Copy Share Image
All the books on my shelves, when I would go to them to look for help with my anguish, they all just… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
“The library turned out to be a very pleasant place, but it was not the comfortable chairs, the huge wooden bookshelves, or… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I think I'm a combination of very simple pleasures and the fact I've read a lot of books. I don't think it's… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
“He called me an asshole and said, “I'll bury you!” like some comic book villain. I wanted to fucking scream my head… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
“Books open and broaden our minds allowing us to challenge ourselves to become more than we are, by setting positive goals for… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
“Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop… — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
“Each of us will make his own shelf of books. The book for me is the book that delights, attracts, soothes, or… — Maurice Francis Egan Copy Share Image
“looking back at me is a woman holding8 a movie based on a book based on her life and she wonders if… — Leigh Stein Copy Share Image
“I could stare at the books ... until my were as dry & fuzzy as the text, but I still didn’t know… — Elizabeth Hein Copy Share Image
You said in your book that at the end of the day, every politician is human. What about during the day? — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point? — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
A book hasn't caused me this much trouble since Where's Waldo went to that barber pole factory. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wake up a little before six, and I go right to my study. That's where I do my daily reading of… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
When you start to talk about comic books, a lot of the time, people forget about the comic part of it. They… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
“Reading means never being bored and never being lonely. My books are my friends; they always provide me with a place to… — Satinder Bhatti Copy Share Image
I love reading. I've had the chance to meet some of my favorite authors, that's been really cool. — Harrison Barnes Copy Share Image
It wasn't that long ago that I was coming up, but it feels almost ancient that you had to go to the… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether its with Africa or childhood. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction. — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Writing novels reminds me of being an awkward 15-year-old typing on a Commodore 64 in his bedroom, trying to be the next… — Duane Swierczynski Copy Share Image
Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
If there is anything I've learned over the past year. It's Never judge a book by it's cover:) — Rachel C Copy Share Image
“Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those… — richelle e. goodrich Copy Share Image
A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place… — Sheila Kaye-Smith Copy Share Image
Being from Russia, I respect all of the comic books American people love. We do follow it a lot. — Svetlana Khodchenkova Copy Share Image
I try to teach my students that books are a mirror, reflecting their own lives, and a window, giving them a peek… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
“My book is a light read. Seriously, it probably weighs 3.33 ounces. That’s pretty impressive, considering it’s an ebook.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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