Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most remarkable thing I found about the Bible was how flexible it is. Here we have a book written 3,000… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
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We live and breathe words. … It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“The older you get, the more questions you get asked, and the more weary you become of answering the questions and the… — Jon Scieszka Katie DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“I was astonished to learn in one of these best-selling books (on church life) that the size of my church parking lot… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“If a bloke gave you a hundred quid for a book you can bet your life it’s his way, but if all… — Alan Marshall Copy Share Image
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Being in the public eye is easy for me because I come from a family of four generations of teachers, so I'm… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
A beginning idea for a book might be: a boy emerges from a hole in the ground. He enters a house. The… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
“There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Everything is possible for the writer. There isn’t anything anyone can tell you that you can’t do, and there is no such… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
I was highly aware, in writing [the book] ROOM, that there are unsavoury aspects to our interest in such cases, and I… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Fred Sturm has proven to be a great asset to the musical world as a teacher, composer and author. His gifts have… — Bob Brookmeyer Copy Share Image
I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“The inexperienced reader wants the essentially familiar combined with superficial novelty. Each story must have a slightly new setting or twist or… — Laurence Perrine Copy Share Image
We came to say, the Quran is our constitution, we are committed to God and his holy book. God willing, should they… — Ismail Haniyeh Copy Share Image
Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“There is also a trilogy of books out. I started reading right after Christmas Divergent. I went to read Insurgent after, and… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me, It's like someone coming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want to talk about the regulation of financial markets because that is not my sphere of expertise. It's a very… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I think a diversity of expression can only be good, so I think the more that people write about their experience, use… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
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I'm sure that I'll never have another success like Harry Potter for the rest of my life, no matter how many books… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Authors and publishers want fair compensation and a means of protecting content through digital rights management. Vendors and technology companies want new… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
The book [Manufacturing Consent] itself is then devoted to a series of case studies, selected, we hope [with Edward Herman], to offer… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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My nervous breakdown last season, when I was bemoaning the fact that I'll never have time to read all the great books… — Jon Cryer Copy Share Image
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Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that… — Linda Pastan Copy Share Image
“He was an unpleasant sort of character, professionally indignant, who'd built up his whole career abroad, selling our national horrors to European… — José Eduardo Agualusa Copy Share Image
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