Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from... — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“It was, she said, the way the book had revealed an inherent narcissism in its recipients.” — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence. — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share Image
I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really amazing thing. — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“The book is a body and your mind will mold to its individual curves much in the way it will to any… — Yxta Maya Murray Copy Share Image
“I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
It's weird being an author because it's different than writing songs. You put so much more of yourself out there to be… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Kept talking about how she's studying every holy book she can get her hands on, aiming to understand God's word. I quoted… — Jeanne DuPrau Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For… — Reif Larsen Copy Share Image
“But as it turned out, the two had a great deal in common, for both Bailey and Thackeray (named for the famous… — Susan Wittig Albert Copy Share Image
“And you’re not the standard insecure nymph hunting for Faulkner you’ll never finish, never start; Faulkner that will harden and calcify, if… — Caroline Kepnes Copy Share Image
Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect. — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word, — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative. — Rachel Dratch Copy Share Image
“Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
...More than almost any current book, DTU will wake the reader from his dogmatic slumbers. It is eminently readable, challenging, and provocative. — John Hospers Copy Share Image
“Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.” — B.R. Myers Copy Share Image
There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments. — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
Books were put out, and 'had a run,' / Like coinage from the mint; / But which could fill the place of… — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I like westerns, fantasy, sci-fi, graphic novels, thrillers, and I try to avoid the word 'genre' altogether. A good book is a… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Levitt admits to having the reading interests of a tweener girl, the Twilight series and Harry Potter in particular. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Comedy doesn't makes your IQ higher… ... Read Science... and don't re-read books for higher IQ!” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader, not the fact that it’s raining, but the feeling of being rained… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
The nice thing about genetics is, I can see my kids doing what I used to do, which is inhaling books like… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel… — Darcey Steinke Copy Share Image
The people that usually have the most trouble with my books are the ones that pick them apart from a theological point… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books. — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“I really enjoy mysteries, well-written fiction novels, historical novels, and the occasional vampire, wolf, human triangle as long as it's real” — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
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