“Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“We are writing this book as a rhizome. It is composed of plateaus. We have given it a circular form, but only… — Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari Copy Share Image
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He would sit all night under the lamp, book of the moment in front of him, dictionary and thesaurus on either side,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
My grandfather used to say, "Learn to like art, music and literature deeply and passionately. They will be your friends when things… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
One question that often comes up is why, in this age of blogs and tweets and instant digital communication of all kinds,… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“The truth!" we demanded. "Oh, the truth," she stammered, "the truth has nothing to do with literature," and sitting down she refused… — Virgina Woolf Copy Share Image
People who excel at book learning tend to call up from memory what they have learned in order to follow stored instructions.… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just… — Paul Westerberg Copy Share Image
I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
“In his great book How to Do Things with Words (1962), J.L. Austin considers the apparently simple sentence "France is hexagonal." He… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
“What is the verdict of the vastest mind? Silence: the book of fate is closed to us. Man is a stranger to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I read scripts movie, TV and theater. I read every novel that is published. I read every book that comes out on… — Van Heflin Copy Share Image
What I really wanted wasn't what I thought I was supposed to want. It wasn't what people had told me I should… — Sara Benincasa Copy Share Image
He pointed the gun at me. Then he looked up at my hand & tilted his head slightly. - Journey, he said.… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I always tell people, "There's a book on everyone." I get some of that book before I do anything. If I want… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
“I once had a book on the stars but now I don't. My memory serves but not stellar, ha. So I made… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to see the truth. Everybody wants to have the fantasy. When I look back at the books I was reading… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Imagine what our culture would be like if Americans sold ideas, words, and books with the same creativity we use to sell… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Why, the club was just the quietest place in the world, a place where a woman could run in to brush her… — Kathleen Thompson Norris Copy Share Image
Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I try not to think too much about an audience when I'm writing the first draft of a book - at that… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
My enthusiasm for L.A. stems from my father, who was a lecturer in American literature at the University of Birmingham. Through his… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
Minimalism has a connotation of being reductive, and not in the best way. 'Brevetist' is a better term. I'm trying to be… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
“Knowledge and book learning are not wisdom," said the captain. "Is this book wisdom?" asked Lucy, putting the manuscript back on the… — R.A. Dick Copy Share Image
It's another year, and a new chapter. The pages are blank, and ready for new beginnings. This book we called LIFE will… — Jhunna Rebusora Copy Share Image
Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
If you think it's worth writing a book about then that means you suspect that you're not the only one. You suspect… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
“Anyway. I’m not allowed to watch TV, although I am allowed to rent documentaries that are approved for me, and I can… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm against Capitol Punishment in all forms, and I have written many pamphlets on this subject in the manner of Swift's Modest… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
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