It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I did get tired of hearing that criticism years ago. That is not a compliment. Being labeled a "beach read" is a… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I'm imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles we have them in our homes and cherish their… — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantiate prejudices I had… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
In North Korea the math book says, you know, there are four American bastards. You kill two of them. Then how many… — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
Whatever action we are doing, we should be sure to keep the thought of God alive within. Whenever we sit or get… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“In fact, because tone is never entirely reducible to a reader’s emotional response to a text or reducible to the text’s internal… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
“I have gotten one question repeatedly from young men. These are guys who liked the book, but they are honestly confused. They… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I source images and ideas from different parts of my experiences, and sometimes they are things that are made-up, or just appear… — Julia Stone Copy Share Image
Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
You could move.' ---"Dear Abby" responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and… — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that you might create any sort of character in a novel and there would be at least one… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“To the enormous majority of persons who risk themselves in literature, not even the smallest measure of success can fall. They had… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“The Truly Disadvantaged, the most important book written about poverty in the past three decades. It was Wilson who first observed, famously,… — Kathryn Edin Copy Share Image
“(these are my highlighted parts of the book) Not human, thought Maura, as the hairs stood up on the back of her… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“Mother knocked once on my door and walked in my room to see me on my bed with the book tight in… — B.C. Doyle Copy Share Image
“But sometimes unexpected things happen that can rouse an old memory, something seminal, a past event so momentous and strong that, like… — Steve Duno Copy Share Image
Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. All of them take place in Israel - in Jerusalem, in the… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Books on scientific photography with such beauty, breadth, and insight are rare. Felice Frankel's Envisioning Science is chock full of mind-boggling images… — Clifford A. Pickover Copy Share Image
Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
“Each and every reader comprehends the Qur’an/ Bible on a different level in tandem with the depth of his understanding. There are… — Taken from The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“I don’t think I’m an exceptionally bad reader. I suspect that many people, maybe even most, are like me. We read and… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What… — Amado Nervo Copy Share Image
I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
My favorite records are, like, The Pretty Things' 'Parachute' and 'S.F. Sorrow' and The Mothers of Invention's 'We're Only in It for… — Ty Segall Copy Share Image
Samoa Joe is an opponent that I really wanted to face in the ring. There was a time when you never thought… — Kofi Kingston Copy Share Image
If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was… — John Green Copy Share Image
“So -- I confess I have been a rake at reading. I have read those things which I ought not to have… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“And once Father Lucas said to me, 'Be simple, Matthew, life is a simple book, and an open book, read and be… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship - you have to be prepared to commit for at… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
Introductions for any event follow the same principle: set the tone while listing any necessary background information, give the piece's title and… — ARNAV DIXIT Copy Share Image
The point of my stories was not to defeat Trump. The point was to tell readers the facts about this man running… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories,… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Beautifully written, intensely passionate and gripping, FALLEN grabbed me from the first sentence and didn’t let go. Its eerie future world and… — Linnea Sinclair Copy Share Image
