“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.” — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck? ” — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
I love writing books, but it's a solitary experience. When I'm on a film set, I'm with a bunch of other artists… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as… — Joseph Barrell Copy Share Image
There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
Don't just a book by it's cover. You never know what you'll find underneath if you just give it a try. — Tiana Webb Copy Share Image
“Dr. Charles Edwin Taylor’s book, An Island of the Sea published in 1898, although” — Sophie Schiller Copy Share Image
For almost every novel I've written, I've read the daily newspaper of the time almost as if it were my current subscription.… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
“There’s never been a noble war except in the history books and propaganda movies. It’s a bloody, dirty, cruel, costly mistake in… — Harold G. Moore Copy Share Image
In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Elliott was disarmingly bright, according to everyone who knew him, an avid reader of Dostoevsky, Kafka, Beckett, Stendhal, Freud, the Buddha, all… — William Todd Schultz Copy Share Image
In a well-written book we are presented with the maturest reflections, or the happiest flights of a mind of uncommon excellence. It… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“When the last of the fireworks had vanished in a cloud of golden stars, she said, "I came home." I didn't say… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Literature, the study of literature in English in the 19th century, did not belong to literary studies, which had to do with… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed… — John McEnroe Copy Share Image
When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue, you sell him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I wish I could read what she's written there. Instead, I pretend the letters are stars. The words, constellations.” — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The good characters in my book are loosely based on folks I know. All the bad stuff is made up.” — Mike Bove Copy Share Image
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I have 52 excerpts of books that I sometimes give players when I want to reach them and then hundreds of quotes. — Jesse Marsch Copy Share Image
Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it. — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such… — Anna Sui Copy Share Image
What's encouraging is that the early new platforms - Kindle and iPad - are clearly leading to people buying more books. The… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
Not a word that I have written about Yugoslavia is denounceable, not a single one. It is literature. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
England did nothing in that World Cup, so why were they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals. I played… — Joey Barton Copy Share Image
Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“She had her head in a book. Like me she preferred reading about travel to actually traveling; it was so much more… — Zanesh Catkin Copy Share Image
The history books will remember the Chinese doctors who sounded the alarm about COVID-19. — Erin O'Toole Copy Share Image
An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real. — Rodman Philbrick Copy Share Image
A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women. — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to… — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough. — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels. — Neal Adams Copy Share Image
“You can’t write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse and passive. Or you can, but they’re called literary novels.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
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