My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I love drawing. It's a passion of mine, and I'm a creative person. I always have my sketch book with me. — Brook Lopez Copy Share Image
I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you look at my bookings, they've gone down each season. That's something I'm trying to keep improving. On the pitch you… — Wayne Rooney Copy Share Image
All literature has this moral strain, but in Russian literature, it's particularly sharp. — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
“The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“In fact, while we read a novel, we are insane – bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If you are reading this book and you feel that way too then you are not alone. I understand how you feel.… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who… — Miguel Serrano Copy Share Image
Reading is a very different thing than performing. In fact, one of the things I think that doesn't work in books on… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me,… — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
The balance between literature and philosophy in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is different from that struck in the novella, but, as Mann clearly… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My producing partner and I were shown a novel we really liked. It was called 'My Abandonment' by Peter Rock, and we… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
“After each book the world changes in my eyes, i have become more suspicious and eager at the same time.” — Anna Jae Copy Share Image
The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between… — Rachel Gibson Copy Share Image
“I'm excited. People from around the country have read the book and love it. Whew! I didn't want it stuck in the… — Faith Kaiser Copy Share Image
“If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came… — Ursula K. Le Guina Copy Share Image
I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
I write books and songs and all sorts of bits and pieces on the side. It's important to have that creative outlet… — Carrie Hope Fletcher Copy Share Image
“You're the absolute protagonist of this book, very well; but do you believe that gives you the right to have carnal relations… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The move to Internet-enable travel booking is creating massive convenience, efficiency, and savings for consumers. — Gillian Tans Copy Share Image
Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding. — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
The main character in the book is usually someone you're identifying with because the story is being told through this person's mind. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful. — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions. — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Among books, one of my early favorites was Gurunath Naik, a Marathi novelist. His mysteries were very popular in the 70s. — Atul Kulkarni Copy Share Image
“I would rather ride on the far distant coattails of established authors than to follow the inexperienced whose whims change with the… — Peggy Randall-Martin Copy Share Image
In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
I had never heard of Rumi until Robert Bly handed me this book and he said, ah, “These poems need to be… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused. — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
“Don't tell me you're reading it,' she said, as if I were doing something to the book, whereas in fact the book… — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
It is a challenging task to adapt a book to screen presentation and you will not be able to satisfy those who… — Vetrimaaran Copy Share Image
I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific… — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
