For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
You don't go to tarot readers or psychics when everything's going well. It's always evidence of rock-bottom. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table. — Patrick White Copy Share Image
When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book. — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it… — Ellie Rose McKee Copy Share Image
“A second, parallel explanation of why our mistakes are so persistent took shape in the late 1990s: Our brains are designed to… — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
“Read the book not all at once, but in small portions at many sittings. And having finished it, consider that you have… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“If [literature] should turn into pure propaganda or pure entertainment, society will slip back into the sty of the immediate -- which… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
They're the soothsayers, all these sci-fi short-story writers. They have totally predicted our civilization and what the future is, and it's nice… — Hilarie Burton Copy Share Image
I reread "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton, the father of all sports books. Aside from that, and books like "Out of Their League"… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“The same was true of Charles Murray’s seminal Losing Ground, another book about black folks that could have been written about hillbillies—which… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements. — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
To have a romance, you have to have time. I'm a justice. I've written a book. The guy's gonna have to wait… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction. — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
“All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I'm actually involved with DigiSmart, a project to get nine-11-year-olds to love books. — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wonder which one is worse: the woman that is stupid or the one that reads books written by stupid authors.… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work. — Nicola Cornick Copy Share Image
When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again. — William Stafford Copy Share Image
To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments. — Bible Copy Share Image
“my folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell him things that he would be unable to discover… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God… My books are about killing God. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Every day is a gift from God. That is why we call today the present. ………author unknown” — Norene Moskalski Copy Share Image
Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else. — Marva Collins Copy Share Image
I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine? — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
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