When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism… Skepticism they view with contempt,… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?”… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I used to envy people who had written books, the way I think women envy other women who've had babies. I was… — Joan Juliet Buck Copy Share Image
As Popa penetrates deeper into his life, with book after book, it begins to look like a Universe passing through a Universe.… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit… — Maj Sjowall Copy Share Image
“Being adopted felt like reading a book that had the first chapter ripped out. You might be enjoying the plot and the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I do play tennis in shorts, I have driven across the length and breadth of the country from Khardung La pass to… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
Readers are hungry to have their stories in the world, to see mirrors of themselves if the stories are about people like… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Sprawling, earnest, and ambitious - its modest title is 'The Future' - Al Gore's new book embodies both the virtues and the… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
“After he wrote The Paradox of Choice, Schwartz got fervent amens from European governments as well as individual readers for insisting that… — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
Unlike side issues like unemployment, unions, and minimum-wage laws, the subject of work itself is almost entirely absent from libertarian literature. Most… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
“Every lover of books has authors whom he reads over and over again, whom he cares for as persons and not as… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“I read all kinds of novels, as long as they’re good. I get a bit piqued when people say, 'I don’t really… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I say to myself that the result of the unnatural effort to which I subject myself, writing, must be the respiration of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I wrote my first play because I wanted to try directing something, and I couldn't afford the rights - it was an… — Jack Thorne Copy Share Image
“I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time... ...why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Writing has become more than just a profession, and hobby…it has become a way to express my feelings and pour my entire… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
“If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book… — Clyde Brion Davis Copy Share Image
“I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm perverse, but the question of "rooting" for a character, or setting out to write a character for whom other people… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
“The books are hard. But the more she asked, the more the children gave. And, though they never saw her, there were… — Parents' National Education Union Copy Share Image
Philosophy treats of physics where a more careful knowledge is required because the problems which come under this head are numerous... So… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
“I grew up listening to my mother scoff at all the T.V shows and books that I watched or read. She told… — Trisscar Copy Share Image
“In the Gospels the emphasis is on the death of Christ. In the Epistles the emphasis is upon the resurrection of Christ.… — J. Vernon McGee Copy Share Image
It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
“No season lives here. This space has quite successfully shut out any such interference. The cunning designer saw to it that there… — Geoffrey O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I think a great book—leaving aside other qualities such as narrative power, characterization, style, and so on—is a book that describes the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Many European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Israel, and New Zealand, have adopted legislation that creates a 'public lending right', where… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
After writing about addiction in a pair of books, I frequently hear from addicts and their family members about serial relapses followed… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
“If you live in the midst of bad people, bad books, and bad things, you lose your power of detecting bad thoughts… — F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer Copy Share Image
“The mandarins of culture—what do they do to teach the common folk to read? It's no good writing down lists of books… — Christopher Moley Copy Share Image
I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Are you sure?" Aidan asked, "Gavriel's still a vampire." "He warned me about you and about them. He didn't have to. I'm… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro,… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like 'Japan is Number One,' most Japanese… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“God perfectly knows Himself and, being the source and author of all things, it follows that He knows all that can be… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“The book depicts thoughts, unveils imaginings, answers unspoken questions, clarifies doubts, resolves arguments, and finally reveals the very atoms of the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
