As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years. — Debbie Allen Copy Share Image
I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Books are peculiar. When you write one, you also have to find things that make headlines. — Luca Toni Copy Share Image
I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book! — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting. — Jakucho Setouchi Copy Share Image
Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. Oneness can only be promoted by the practice… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
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In the field of aesthetic theory, humans are pattern-seeking creatures. That can be seen in terms of musical structures, patternmaking, even in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“My memories are not books. They are only stories that I have been over so many times in my head that I… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under… — Karen Robards Copy Share Image
I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for… — Michael Lindsay-Hogg Copy Share Image
Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
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“the recent novel by his wife Rebecca Goldstein, entitled 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, subtitled A Work of Fiction). The” — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.” — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
One of the ideas that runs through this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] is this Buddhist notion that the mind is incredibly… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant. — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“Animals in children’s literature always have a soul life because children perceive animals as having souls.” — Linda Bender Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do… — Sandra Lee Copy Share Image
I was trying to make a novel about something no one wanted to read about into something they couldn't put down or… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
I admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it! — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The Bible is one book, written by one Author, with one subject: Jesus Christ and the salvation God...provides through Him. — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living. — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
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