“As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by a sense… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Recently there came a period when I had little to do. This was novel in a life so crammed with busy years,… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I've soaked up so much through dancing, but I also have to be still. I want to be silent and read, to… — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
“All novels are impossible. We would not wish to read them if they were not. Can you imagine how dull a tale… — Caitlin Williams Copy Share Image
“...for some of us, books are as important as anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these… — Anne Lamont Copy Share Image
“Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
If 'Mystery Train' is my Nixon book and 'Lipstick Traces' my Reagan book, 'Invisible Republic' is my Bill Clinton book. I really… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
“new disciples of La Familia Michoacana, a bloodthirsty Mexican drug cartel, are reportedly forced to read the works of John Eldredge, an… — Tom Wainwright Copy Share Image
“Well…it’s whether you want to face certain death by taking a risk on the other route or almost certain death by scaling… — Adele Rose Copy Share Image
That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Truman had been sitting in a chair in the bedroom with several new books stacked on a table beside him. Did the… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Islam’s all about knowledge, right? Muslims know everything. We seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave. We seek knowledge even if… — Michael Muhammad Knight Copy Share Image
“Really good work probably comes out of a willingness to disclose yourself, open yourself up in spiritual and emotional ways that risk… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
At first critics classified authors as Ancients, that is to say, Greek and Latin authors, and Moderns, that is to say, every… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I'm not the crazy chick that people think I am. I am truly a human being, I'm not just this suspicious character… — Keke Wyatt Copy Share Image
“You like almost every genre, but you’re a binge genre reader. When you’re on a science-fiction kick, you stay with sci-fi for… — Ellery Adams Copy Share Image
“Working on the Dark Side of the Moon" is meant to lift the curtain on secret places where smart, dedicated people work… — Thomas Reed Willemain Copy Share Image
I learned capacity for self-reflection very early, finding it through interior monologues that books are so good at and that visual media… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
A novel is like a long relationship and a short story is a brief one that lingers - it lingers powerfully and… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“Back then I could not understand one word of what I read. Reading did, however, give me heart. Even if you cannot… — Peter Hoeg Copy Share Image
At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
“Books; I repeat, for they've not only been a solace during the long years but also provided the keys to understanding other… — Eliza Granville Copy Share Image
Anybody who sits down to write, and they think 'thriller,' maybe shouldn't be thinking that way. Maybe we should be thinking 'novel,'… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
In art school, I started to see Pettibon in magazines, and I figured it out backward. I was into the idea that… — Michael Dumontier Copy Share Image
Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul’s research is extraordinary;… — Debby Applegate Copy Share Image
“We did photograph albums, best dresses, favourite novels, and once someone's own novel. It was about a week in a telephone box… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“After travelling a few miles, he fell asleep; and Emily, who had put two or three books into the carriage, on leaving… — Eliza Parsons Copy Share Image
“But see, that's the thing about movies. Nothing is left to the imagination. You read a book, and you see a picture… — Laurie Viera Rigler Copy Share Image
The theme that runs through all my books is connection. Connection - physical and non-physical - with other humans, and connection with… — Mary Alice Monroe Copy Share Image
For every Book of Job, there's a Book of Leviticus, featuring some of the most boring prose ever written. But if you… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I was dissatisfied with my 1967 manuscript and decided to rewrite the book. It was the first of September, and I said… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
In the end, of course, all novelists will be judged by their novels, but let's not forget that we will also need… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“Close your mouth Lily, you look like a codfish." "I can't help it. This place looks like something out of medieval times.… — Marianne Morea Copy Share Image
“For those of us with a bookish bent, reading is a reflexive response to everything. This is how we deal with the… — Diane Schoemperlen Copy Share Image
“This book does not exist. And if that doesn’t deter you from buying it, then I’m also selling frozen alien flesh, a… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that… — Bible Copy Share Image
