We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I read a lot of scripts. I believe you've got to read one that you know you're not going to do, because… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important.… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I seldom read on beaches or in gardens. You can't read by two lights at once, the light of day and the… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existence… — Todorov Tzvetan Copy Share Image
“Every night I went into Hannah's room and sat with her stuff. The thing I couldn't get was how her clothes and… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
I tried to reject everything I knew as a TV writer when I decided to be a novelist, and the books didn't… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
“And everywhere, everywhere, there were books. Not the tidy stacks of an intellectual attempting to impress, but the slumping piles of a… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation,… — Linda Gregerson Copy Share Image
First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“Prior to any generalization about literature, literary texts have to be read, and the possibility of reading can never be taken for… — Paul De Man Copy Share Image
“often she had seemed to herself to be moving among those vanished figures of old books and pictures, an invisible ghost among… — Virginia Wolf Copy Share Image
Is it better to go indie and make bigger profits on each book, or stick with a print publisher's 6%-10% royalties? Since… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics,… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why did Iwanski risk so much to save Jews? He told the author, "When a Jew cries, I cry. When a Jew… — Dan Kurzman Copy Share Image
When a sculptor creates a sculpture, a writer writes a novel, or a painter paints a motif on a canvas, he needs… — Klaus Teuber Copy Share Image
At the close of my visit, my Hawaiian friends urged me strongly to publish my impressions and experiences, on the ground that… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
The model of the educational Kalila Wa-Dimna. These are books of instruction to rulers and humans. The stories unfold a range of… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“However, for the man who studies to gain insight , books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I was a very bad accountant. I knew the book theory, but I didn't have the heart for it. I did it… — John Pinette Copy Share Image
I am so tired - so tired. I see too many people, Read too many books. Do too many things. I hate… — Pauline Cohn Copy Share Image
“XXI. But Arnold Bros (est. 1905) said, This is the Sign I give you: XXII. If You Do Not See What You… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read. If you are… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“One thinks of nothing,’ he continued; ‘the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blinding… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Good,” and Judge Robertson began to ramble on about the benefits and drawbacks of living with either parent. Penny’s attention wandered, she… — Vanessa Wolf Copy Share Image
“She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“I love to read. However, there have been times when certain books did not resonate with me because the timing was off… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Animal rights is a serious subject, but I do my best to find humor where I can, and I have some great… — Karen Dawn Copy Share Image
The Bible in itself is not the Word of God. The Word of God is a person. Neither does the Bible have… — Robert D. Brinsmead Copy Share Image
In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are… — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
“In any case, if the reader would have a correct idea of the mood of these exiles, we must conjure up once… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Wake up! There’s incredible beauty all around you. I’m absorbed in writing this book but I managed to look closely at a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight.… — Carolyn Cooke Copy Share Image
