Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek.” — R. Curtis Venture Copy Share Image
“only philosophy can go deep enough to show that literature goes still deeper than philosophy” — Michel Serres Copy Share Image
Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
“Now we can travel with more books stored in our telephones than the ancient Egyptians kept in their vast library at Alexandria.” — Mike Aquilina Copy Share Image
“We have adorned the lower heaven with an adornment, the star- They cannot listen to the exalted assembly and they are reproached… — Compton Gage Copy Share Image
“The passion to teach, to share deeply experienced “lessons from life,” is embedded in all literature.” — Vera B. Williams Copy Share Image
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure. — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
I'm definitely not a monthly guy. Probably never will be. I'm simply in awe of the guys who do monthly books well...… — Lee Bermejo Copy Share Image
I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I got the audition I looked up the Wheel of Time book series on Google and I saw that it has… — Madeleine Madden Copy Share Image
“This was no ordinary lighthouse, such as the ones he had read about in books and heard described in the tales of… — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
“When I wrote the book [LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care], I was filled with a sense of hope for the future. Barack… — Kimberly D. Acquaviva Copy Share Image
“Ah yet, ere I descend to the grave, May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, and… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
I like big books and I cannot lie. You other readers can’t deny That when a kid walks in with The Name… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
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Book in relaxation time as you would book in everything else. Back in the day, as an athlete, that was important. — Colin Jackson Copy Share Image
Anyone that puts their life at risk to protect our freedom is a HERO in my book. Thanks for your bravery and… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
'Les Miserables', the book, 'Les Miserables', the musical - it's about giving; it's about goodness. It's about compassion and love. — Colm Wilkinson Copy Share Image
There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm about to read Scott Turow's 'Innocent.' I've been hungry for this book since he first told me it was in the… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done. — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
“To read is to empower, To empower is to write, To write is to influence, To influence is to change, To change… — Jane Evershed Copy Share Image
In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation. — Rebekah Brooks Copy Share Image
“Good books and bad books, like people, are part and parcel of life. Keep reading, books and people.” — Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma Copy Share Image
“If truth be told, I came away ‘almost’ believing in their existence. (Author Nikki B. on 'ORPHANS - Time is running out'… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Photography's about the surface, what's happening at the top of the sea. Literature's about all the stuff below. — Max Pam Copy Share Image
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There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
“Sunday is the only day you have to push like a handcart,’ Thomas wrote in The Book Of Everything. ’ The other… — Guus Kuijer Copy Share Image
Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons. — William Targ Copy Share Image
I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it. — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere. — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
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