By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will… — Osman Rashid Copy Share Image
“Of a real, true contract, on whatsoever subject, there is no vestige in Rousseau's book. To give an exact idea of his… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
“I never could understand the fondness some people have for confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken their… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the… — Saadi Copy Share Image
Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“I still maintain that the times get precisely the literature that they deserve, and that if the writing of this period is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the great challenges of today’s digital thinking tools is knowing when not to use them, when to rely on the… — The Penguin Press Copy Share Image
“It seems like everyone I know has very strong feelings about which boy is the best fit for Katniss, but also because… — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
Literature and the other arts play with pattern - our brains understand our world by recognizing patterns - and with possibility. The… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice… — Margaret Weis Copy Share Image
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“In her book The Writing Life (1989), Annie Dillard tells the story of a fellow writer who was asked by a student,… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
There really is no difference in the actual writing or plotting. I choose to tell different stories for the younger reader and,… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I won't know whodunnit until maybe two thirds of the way through. Until then, I know as little as… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then… — Clifford Irving Copy Share Image
“Should you care to write (and only the saints know why you should) you must needs have knowledge and art and magic… — Kahil Gibran Copy Share Image
Each young reader has to fashion an entirely new 'reading circuit' afresh every time. There is no one neat circuit just waiting… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
When I went through the Simpson case, I was a cop. Then I was a good cop. Then I was a bad… — Mark Fuhrman Copy Share Image
“See what happens to the souls and outcome of a molesting priest, suicide bomber, deadly gang leader, rapist serial killer in the… — William Depaol Copy Share Image
If I'm not writing a book, I'm doing promotion for a book. One thing I love to do is go off with… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
I've always relied on producing more material than I need. With each of my published novels I've written around four times the… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“In an enchanting encounter with the myriad books that I met in a cosy book shop today, I couldn't help but get… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“And this note was a jittery time bomb, ticking beneath my normal life, in my pocket all day firecely reread, in my… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I knew what I wanted to do when I set out. I knew that I wanted to write a book that told… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I read the 'Twilight' books before the movie and the whole craze happened. And then I loved it. I was in love… — Nina Dobrev Copy Share Image
To me the question is always this: if a ray of light came out of the sky and said, "Your next book… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
Immensely clever and libidinously hilarious.The most astonishing thing about Love in a Dead Language is its ingenious construction. Insofar as any printed… — Paul Di Filippo 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
“As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable diminishing… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I love scrapbooks. They are one of the finest ways of dejunking life and abode... A good scrapbook is interesting and inspiring… — Don Aslett Copy Share Image
Your protagonist is your reader’s portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The point of page one is to make people turn to page two and if at the end of the book people… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
