Interviews don't go to the core of my life. Everybody knows my life - it's an open book. — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
“She wondered whether the books she loved consoled her precisely because they were the manifestations of her own isolation.” — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“After the end of the world, there is a world. Life doesn’t stop. It changes. And it changes me.” — Caroline George Copy Share Image
Weaknesses have a certain function in a poem... some strategy in order to pave the reader's way to the impact of this… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“My author role model is Kurata Misako. I want to be rich enough to drive from room to room in my home… — Christy Leigh Stewart Copy Share Image
The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby… There's a feeling of relief and satisfaction when you get to the… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Reading all the quotes in the world won’t make you or me into Plato, Gandhi Or Einstein, just like watching hundreds games… — pablo Copy Share Image
“Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Forget all those prescriptive ideas about "the novel" and "literature" and set down your feelings and thoughts as they come to you,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I believe we can change the world one letter at a time. Literacy isn't a noun, it's a verb meant to be… — Kelly Tully Copy Share Image
But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I don't think any Writer/Author wrote something to be famous, He just have shared his feelings, What makes him famous is the… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
With only one novel to her credit, Anna Jarzab can't quite be classified in Werlin country, but 'All Unquiet Things' is a… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“I want people to come away from my book with questions," she says. "Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do. — Asa Larsson Copy Share Image
“A great book is not always on the best seller list, follow your own path to discovery” — Taylor Shawcross Copy Share Image
Comic books and films have a lot more in common than, say, comics and books or films and books. The two art… — Owen King Copy Share Image
Every morning, after a few sips of coffee and a bit of small talk, each of us retreats with our books, and… — Yxta Maya Murray Copy Share Image
“Orientalism is after all a system for citing works and authors . __ Orientalism” — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Man, I don't read books! I just read a bunch of 'Walking Dead' comics. I don't even read comics, but zombies are… — Diplo Copy Share Image
I am very instinctive. When I read a script, I think, 'Is this something I would want to watch?' — Dulquer Salmaan Copy Share Image
I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books! — George W. Crane Copy Share Image
Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I draw rainbows whenever I see them, with my black ink pen. When I have collected enough, I thought I might make… — Jason Polan Copy Share Image
I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
Perhaps because technology so dominates our existence, more and more it seems that the young reader is captivated by fantasy. — Anita Nair Copy Share Image
One Good Book Is Equal To, Hundred Good Friend's But One Good Friend Is Equal To A Liabary. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I hope people will find the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] a whole lot more than hollow. — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
“In literature, as in Life, one is often astonished by what is chosen by others.” — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“What's a horizon?' Lazlo asked, straight-faced. 'Is it like the end of an aisle of books?” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made… — John Fowles Copy Share Image