You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
“Socrates did not think much of books and the written word; as a proponent of oral storytelling, he thought the written word… — Nicholas Kardaras Copy Share Image
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Are they not criminals, books that have wasted our time and sympathy; are they not the most insidious enemies of society, corrupters,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I've always read, I've always admired writers and was lucky really to meet some extraordinary ones and become friends. Certain times you… — David Salle Copy Share Image
“Now that you’re here, now that they know you exist, you’ll never be free again. Ever. We’re prisoners to our books, our… — Angela Parkhurst Copy Share Image
What I hear about the book does not sound like the Scott McClellan I knew for two years. I can say, without… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
“10. What books would you recommend to an aspiring entrepreneur? Some quick favorites: The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“The many mysteries boil down to three. There is the kind that can be solved: who planted the bomb? Will the travellers… — James Meek Copy Share Image
“[author quoting from his journal entry] "To feel safe is to stop living in my head and sink down into my heart… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have… — Dana Brunetti Copy Share Image
“Gloria lowered the book. “Are you allergic to gluten?” I shook my head. “Is this Emily person allergic to gluten?” I shook… — Bunmi Laditan Copy Share Image
My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
“And Meredith says that reminds her of a Camus novel, the one about the plague, and she tells the story of it,… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The idea that when one reacts, one is not reacting to any one of those moments. You're reacting to the accumulation of… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
“If this satanic sprinkling of redundant apostrophes causes no little gasp of horror or quickening of the pulse, you should probably put… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you?… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a… — Marcel Theroux Copy Share Image
I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“This use of ordinary people as the principal characters was fairly rare in science fiction when the book came out, and even… — Arkady Strugatsky Copy Share Image
My favourite authors are John Grisham and Jeffrey Archer. Grisham rapidly established himself and now completely owns the legal space of fiction… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
In Peter Ackroyd's book 'London: The Biography,' he describes the route of the medieval wall that enclosed the original city. Take the… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
“Please, God. I am a smart woman, I know words, I've read books; he's just a guy, he's just a person, I… — Kathleen DeMarco Copy Share Image
J. K. Rowling is one of my favourite authors, and I really admire how she created this big wizarding world. But I… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
“They spent pork-barrel money like a tidal-wave sea, but no funds trickled down far enough to reach me. Our books numbered few… — David Davis Copy Share Image
“When I was with him, I felt like a book worth reading all the way through again and again and again. Sure,… — Candice Raquel Lee Copy Share Image
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
I can't wait for both my daughters to be old enough to read all my books. I loved it every time I… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
When I was in the UFC, I would get tickets for a fight, and then what I would do is go in… — Matt Riddle Copy Share Image
If there’s any other message in this to readers, it’s in these two characters as icons of hope, that it doesn’t make… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
“If you were to stare at this box of matches, you could extract entire worlds out of it. If you search for… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
Neil Shepard's (T)RAVEL/ UN(T)RAVEL takes us from the sublime -- Paris in Spring, sunset on Corfu -- to an unscheduled toilet stop… — Charles Harper Webb Copy Share Image
![“Socrates did not think much of books and the written word; as a proponent of oral storytelling, he thought the written word would kill our memory skills and make us all bloody idiots: “[It] destroys memory [and] weakens the mind, relieving it of . . . work that makes it strong. [It] is an inhuman…” quote by Nicholas Kardaras](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/033/nicholas-kardaras-72010_books_socrates-did-not-think-much-of-books-and_156760.jpg)
![“[author quoting from his journal entry] "To feel safe is to stop living in my head and sink down into my heart and feel liked and accepted...not having to hide anymore and distract myself with books, television, movies, ice cream, shallow conversation...staying in the present moment and not…” quote by Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/05d/brennan-manning-959_anxiety_author-quoting-from-his-journal-entry-to_178363.png)
