One of the reasons so many nonfiction books are so boring is because what they've done, very diligently, is fulfill the terms… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“Dany "Bring me that book I was reading last night." She wanted to lose herself in the words, in other times and… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
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There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“What Are You Made of: Your belief system in regards to where you stand within the world are at the Core of… — Therone Shellman Copy Share Image
You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?" "Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
I can't think of any flower that wouldn't be suitable to merge with an image of a newborn, and as I was… — Anne Geddes Copy Share Image
“This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to ‘serious’ courses replete with ‘trends ’ and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Part of any book is establishing the rules at the end of the world. My first book, 'The Intuitionist,' takes place in… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“I love trash. I have never believed that kitsch kills. I tell you this, so you will understand that my antipathy toward… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
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“What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“Dear reader. Dear, dear reader. Here we find ourselves, you and me, engaged in a book in which someone has just exclaimed,… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“I was not gentle on my books. I read while I ate, I read in the bathtub. At night, I rolled over… — Georgia Bell Copy Share Image
I never tell students they cannot read a book they pick up, but I do guide them toward books that I think… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you should go into the largest library you can find and stand there contemplating the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I want to type one of my books into a free online translation website, and convert it from English to German and… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“Those images were the world, and it stewed in her as she sat with the lovely books and their manicured titles. It… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
This is why I studied literature in college. This is why I became a teacher: to share in grand conversations about books,… — Jeffrey D Wilhelm Copy Share Image
I really believe that the movie will never be as good as the book, both because the book goes on longer -… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“It is strange, a judicious reader is apt to say, upon the perusal of these wonderful historians, that such prodigious events never… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's fun to see someone grow as a writer, moving from their first workshopped poems to publishing their earliest poems to having… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless! And they stay in the desert! Jackals piss… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“My father was too distracted to see anything in this. Mimicking my mother, he taped it to the fridge in the same… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“In her book For Women Only, Shaunti Feldhahn revealed the results of a professional survey of men that asked this question: With… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
You know what's fun? You pick somebody at random, like out of the phone book, and send them about 100 'Just Because'… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, nor the amount of religious conversation… — Frederick W Robertson Copy Share Image
One of the wonderful things about the computer is that it allows us to sit at home and either write a book… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain There it was, word for word, The poem that took the place of… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“This book is dedicated to every woman who has ever felt self-conscious about her size. Outer beauty comes in all sizes, shapes,… — Raynetta Manees Copy Share Image
I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing--that… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“To Frances Turnbull Nov. 9, 1938 p. 368 I've read the story carefully and, Frances, I'm afraid the price for doing professional… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I've heard the joke a million times that "Jews in Sports" must be the thinnest book in the world. Actually, I've seen… — Dolph Schayes Copy Share Image
“Finally, I'd like to thank my readers for staying with me all these years. I especially want to thank the ones who… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
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