Like books you will never have the chance to read, there are languages you do not know, and you're not going to… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“I know perfectly well that it is impossible, according to arithmetic and scholarly books, to live in a far valley off a… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“I write because it’s a way of puzzling out answers to situations in the world that I don’t understand. The act of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Then Mr. Norrell roused himself and took down five or six books in a great hurry and opened them up - presumably… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
In books and movies infidelity always looks so compelling, so right. Here are people who defy petty convention and are rewarded with… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Your life is a book. Some have written half-way, some, three-quarter way. You have the opportunity to write and rewrite the book… — Nike Campbell-Fatoki Copy Share Image
I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
There are definitely some tricks and techniques to a good reading. Rewarding the audience that shows up to your reading is very… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
“The yoga system described in the books of Patañjali is authoritative, and the modern so-called yogīs who have manufactured their own ways,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Joe learned to view the comic book hero in his formfitting costume, not as a pulp absurdity but as a celebration of… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“History is the memory of states,' wrote Henry Kissinger in his first book, A World Restored , in which he proceeded to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Books and novels in particular that grapple with quite a few things are difficult to explain, so I think that first line… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us,… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom… — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
Im just a girl. I love being called pretty, but I'll never believe it. Im not always right, but I hate admitting… — Mickey Anderson Copy Share Image
There's a book called 'The Shack' - it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeting my birth mother.… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
“The proverb, "Where there's a will.." sums it up for a writer who had just started in his writing life; for himself,… — Lucas Michael Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The historian Max Hastings wrote in his book Inferno that “it is characteristic of all conflicts that until enemies begin to shoot,… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
“That something I cannot yet define completely but the feeling comes when you write well and truly of something and know impersonally… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
I read everything and anything related to being queer. I found solace in reading authors like Audre Lorde and bell hooks, who… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
“She spent the afternoon typing up notes, answering readers' questions, and blogging about a new online source for organic cinnamon and nutmeg,… — Barbara Delinsky Copy Share Image
We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
“On a spring day in 1988…a Massachusetts man who collected books about local history was rummaging through a bin in a New… — Allison Hoover Bartlett Copy Share Image
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I've had a five- or six-year down-spell as a writer, and now that most of the other contracts are cleared or down… — Robert Asprin Copy Share Image
“Some of the books the Ministry’s confiscated — Dad’s told me — there was one that burned your eyes out. And everyone… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“You’re supposed to, I think. Just like you were supposed to come to Cairnholm.” “I don’t believe in stuff like that. Fate.… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
One of the best and most challenging books about Orwell is by the socialist literary critic Raymond Williams. As a critic -… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Libraries are my passion in life. Before I became mayor (of Los Angeles), I used to sneak out here during lunchtime...and I'd… — Richard Riordan Copy Share Image
“The day before the Queen's Ball, Father had a visitor--a very young girl with literary aspirations, someone Lord Lytton had recommended visit… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I would call the attention of the reader to the difference between "reason" and "reasoning." Reason is a light, reasoning a process.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Next was Alice. I gave her a book by Anne Rice because she is always talking about her. And she looked at… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I am always amazed by the novel angles that people come up with for kids' Christmas books. Even if a family is… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
