“I am so obsessed with my life that the books I used to read are resting in the bookshelf for years and… — Neymat Khan Copy Share Image
I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew. — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage. — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“You'll find magic everywhere, even in dark, dusty corners, if you stop searching with your limited human eyes and instead feel with… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Calcutta is a very culturally-forward city. People encourage art, music, literature and I just feel like that's a city that looks for… — Masaba Gupta Copy Share Image
I want people to fill their minds with passages of Scripture while they are well and strong, that they may have sure… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“You can always regain readers that you lost from not updating enough. But it’s not so easy to regain them if they’ve… — Jonah Jones Copy Share Image
She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and… — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
I hope the reader's sense that I am deeply empathetic with the pain of being in a desperate marriage, but I also… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Most Americans and other Westerners claim to have read all or part of the Bible. However, when asked to identify even four… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination,… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
“I don't know much about anything in this world but I do know how to read the book written in his eyes.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
I never read too many comic books when I was growing up, but I think everyone loved Wolverine, you know what I'm… — Aaron Stanford Copy Share Image
I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
“I’m so happy Sazed included me in his little book so that drunk people can curse by my name.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
You could start a small fire... with [photo] books I hate, and use that light to look at mine. — John Gossage Copy Share Image
Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I… — Arnold Lobel Copy Share Image
When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The big advantage of a book is that it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths,… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
“Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
As the years go by, I find myself experiencing God's extraordinary concern, consideration, healing, and what I call in my books, the… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12. — Michael Tubbs Copy Share Image
My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
One can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship… — Moby Copy Share Image
When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
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