The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Clear, and compassionate, this collection illuminates the problems and opportunities that flowed from Christchurch after the quakes, and interrogates the manmade disaster… — Gaylene Preston Copy Share Image
You know that feeling, she said, when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I'd never written a book or a story that required meeting people, and that's not necessarily my best skill, even in English.… — Tania James Copy Share Image
I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as… — John Joseph Griffin Copy Share Image
A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to… — Larry Kirshbaum Copy Share Image
While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
When I started in the comic book business, 'Art Of' books were strictly the provenance of the greats, like Rembrandt and Da… — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You use the intonation of the peasants. Is that taught in your books?” “I knew an Eyllwe woman who taught it to… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. "No," she said softly,… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Within a week I walked the streets of Tel-Aviv, I wandered around Budapest and found myself admiring the Architecture of Paris. That's… — Byron Ortiz Copy Share Image
In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they can… — Andy Grundberg Copy Share Image
“The club book was never intended to be light and titillated reading for the members. Its function is solely to acquaint those… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I am the girl who spends hours huddled in a corner of a library, trying to find what you love the most… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
I don't see love as some perfect happily ever after thing like it is in books and movies. It's more like a… — Melissa Brown Copy Share Image
“Everyone has a golden. It could be anything-a song, a book, a pet, a person. Anything that makes you so happy your… — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
There's nothing that can drive me from zero to crazy faster than a man who comes up to me and says, 'You… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Every reader of the Conversations with the God is invited to self-select, that is, to choose themselves, to be among those who… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The modern idea of testing a reader's "comprehension," as distinct from something else a reader may be doing, would have seemed an… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
When scandal has new-minted an old lie, Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply, 'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appears… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
If you're reading a novel that was written in 1964, you'll find out more about 1964 than if you're reading a nonfiction… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
When historians write the last pages of their books, and the producers of history documentaries sit down to edit the final minutes… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there… — John Green Copy Share Image
My personal relationship with Ali began in 1988, when we met in New York to explore the possibility of my writing the… — Thomas Hauser Copy Share Image
“ Pictures are windows to any lands, But a book is a door that ready stands To him who will open and… — Annette Wynne Copy Share Image
Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes… — Joshua Rogers Copy Share Image
The traditional route to success in science fiction is by making a name for yourself in short fiction, so people who read… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah-time or Kwanzaa-time is that people go to bookstores: that they walk around bookstores and look… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“literature enlarges our world of experience to include both more of the physical world and things not yet imagined, giving the “actual… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
