No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Unfinished works of great Authors are a triumph not a tragedy, it shows they gave us their all till the end” — A.C. Quinn Copy Share Image
I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
I think if you can take something out and it doesn't change the book, it doesn't need to be there. — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
“The ECLS data do show, for instance, that a child with a lot of books in his home tends to test higher… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
My dad wanted me to go down a more academic route. He is very much about sticking to the rule book and… — Rita Ora Copy Share Image
“CUSTOMER: Hi. BOOKSELLER: Hi there, how can I help? CUSTOMER: Could you please explain Kindle to me. BOOKSELLER: Sure. It’s an e-reader,… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or, as it were, fondle them—peer into them, let them fall… — William R. Manchester Copy Share Image
“Even though every piece of today feels small. I’ll do today, glancing up and remembering a race is completed the same way… — Jennie Allen Copy Share Image
“One thing you know when you're ten is that no matter what, there's gonna be a happy ending. They can sweat all… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
My dad had this outlook: It doesn't matter what I want to read - reading was a good thing. So whatever I… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I am something of an aficionado of thrift stores. In my youth, I regularly searched their shelves for old books. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“I'm sufficient of a doctrinaire to believe that the novel is the product of a leisured class. Actually.” — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books. — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“Good things don’t come easy and anything free you have got to ponder the tiny literature under the big words.” — Harken Headers Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Peter Schweizer's book, Clinton Cash, is not discredited. It has been quoted on the front page of the New York Times and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
For where is any author in the world, Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? Learning is but an adjunct to ourself. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Part of the problem I find with money books is that there's this whole set of money books that make you feel… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
“That’s the oppressive thing about happiness, the way everything is out on the table like an open book:” — Herman Koch Copy Share Image
Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
I love any books by Kelly Sue DeConnick or Marjorie M. Liu; it's lovely to have successful, talented female writers doing great… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just… — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text. — Louise Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
A teacher giving lectures without knowledge is like a beggar selling books on how to become rich. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“I’m working on another Lyra book right now – it’s called The Book of Dust. “It’s going very well and it will… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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