“You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Deal with your readers that they are smart, and write a language that suits their intelligence. - How to write the best… — Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi Copy Share Image
Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
There are no gatekeepers in children's literature. There are children who like what you write because it's funny. — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.” — Carlos María Domínguez Copy Share Image
There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young… — Hozier Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it funny the way some combinations of words can give you – apart from their meaning – a thrill like music?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
If you look at the record books, Dale Earnhardt's done everything, except win the Daytona 500. Now they can't have that riding… — Ernie Irvan Copy Share Image
I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
“From then on, Matilda would visit the library only once a week in order to take out new books and return the… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“He always had books. Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I have lost my mate, my mind, my existence.." Blood Wrath book 3 of The draven Witch Series” — Zoey Sweete Copy Share Image
If a Canadian novel hasn't been a box-office success, say, 'The Republic of Love,' then producers are reluctant to try again. — Kari Skogland Copy Share Image
A novel is not a play. A novel takes one reader at a time into its confidence. It can be shockingly personal.… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“I did not care for the book the Shack at all! It all seemed a little far fetched.” — paul Copy Share Image
Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“Do you have any advice for your readers? Lead the life that’s yours instead of faking someone else’s.” — sandy nathan Copy Share Image
I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage… — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them. — William Scott Copy Share Image
Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends. — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
It's black women as perpetual sidekick. We need to hear from more women's voices. And it would be nice to see some… — Cheryl Lynn Copy Share Image
“I loved the story but also enjoyed the format of the book, which includes e-mail messages. Janice L. Jones” — Vicki M. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Fortuna favet fortibus (fortune favors the brave) -mentioned in The Black Book of Secrets” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable. — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I think the best part of being an author is that I get to learn about anything I want and explain it… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images. — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
“Here is a book of tongues. Take it. (Dark leaves invade the air.) Beware! I now know a language so beautiful and… — Gwendolyn MacEwen Copy Share Image
We musicians often get inspiration from films and books or photographs, not only by music. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
