“Rahim Khan laughed. “Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off. — William Styron Copy Share Image
An actor is all I ever really wanted to be. But if I couldn't do that anymore... I'd open a book store. — Nick Searcy Copy Share Image
“I was never without a book, just in case there were empty moments to slip into a life that wasn't mine.” — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain… — Claire Denis Copy Share Image
I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script,… — Judy Davis Copy Share Image
“The whole book of Revelation is a circular letter addressed to seven specific churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea (1:11;… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“Here we come to the central question of this book: What, precisely, does it mean to say that our sense of morality… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“The love between writer and a reader is never celebrated. It can never be proved to exist. But he was the man… — Patricia Duncker Copy Share Image
The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in… — LouAnne Johnson Copy Share Image
My first book was published when I was thirty-two, so I think it was basically finished when I was thirty or thirty-one.… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“I grew up in a household that was filled with Scottish and Irish ballads. So I think that the complexity and the… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
“Priya Gowda had never met a book she wouldn't read, and she'd met a lot of them.” — Faith Mudge Copy Share Image
The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it. — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
Seriously, just buy the [expletive deleted] book. I promise you'll like it. Unless you're [expletive deleted]. — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“real books should be the offspring not of daylight and casual talk but of darkness and silence” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I always sympathize with people who complain about the length of my books. It would take me a year to get through… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
I know if I were dead, I would be all spirit and no body, so I prey for my own death. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I couldn't pay attention to a novel; I'd get three pages in and couldn't remember what it was about. — Adriano Zumbo Copy Share Image
There are very few well-adjusted people in my books. But I do think that's normal. Because everyone does have their issues and… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
For so long, I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much… — John Scott Copy Share Image
“Sidda can't help herself, She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves those black letters marching… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity. — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
“If we place the books randomly, how are they ever found again?' She smiled. "The books just seem to know to go… — Sean Ferrell Copy Share Image
“I have books to read, and much to sit and watch. I try not to let good things go by unnoticed.” — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I was thinking more of laughter and smiles. For example, the feeling I get when I read a good book.” — Scott D. Southard Copy Share Image
“There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now… — Charlotte Gainsbourg Copy Share Image
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me? — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“No book has worth by itself, but by the relation to what you have from many other books, it weighs.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I didn't say I have to be a writer, but I did say that I needed to publish at least one book. — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
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