Ethical inquiry has always been motivated by the aim of improving human conduct. It doesn't follow from that that the goal is… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Books are almost always better than the movies made from them, because there are things books do well and things movies do… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
In my first book, 'A Return to Love', I wrote about things in the outer world that need to change - how… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka Copy Share Image
In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is… — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I used to love 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,' and I can still remember listening to them before I would… — William Moseley Copy Share Image
“The book in my hands became my trusted companion. What was written there had so much power that it forced me to… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
Just when you thought the mafia novel was dead, Tod Goldberg breathes new life into it. Gangsterland, the best mafia novel in… — Sara Gran Copy Share Image
“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know how some people are upwardly mobile? I'm sort of downwardly mobile in the publishing world, because of my sales figures… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have… — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
I'd heard Joyce Grenfell on the radio, and when Mum gave me a book of her comic routines, I just loved it.… — Dorothy Atkinson Copy Share Image
Every book that doesn't first have to get past a gatekeeper or two, or 10, before being put in front of the… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
Any opportunity to play Ms. Marvel or project myself into her in any version, comic book movie, otherwise, I'll be happy to. — Iman Vellani Copy Share Image
I was paid more for the serialization rights for each book than I got as an advance for my first novel. In… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“No one can command over the images of your mind but an Author can and if you won't believe on me then… — Prakhar Srivastav Copy Share Image
I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physical. It has… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen. — Marisol Nichols Copy Share Image
I like these nonfiction books where everything that is interesting about them is lost in that catch-all description of their "about"-ness. — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
You can already download any of the religious texts onto electronic mechanisms like a Kindle. But I think many people prefer to… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because,… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
“By mastering character and plot, you give your book a fighting chance and without character and plot, no book can survive.” — Craig Hart Copy Share Image
The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I think you can learn a lot from primary sources. 'The Penguin Book of Witches,' which is edited by novelist Katherine Howe,… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Some books that were rejected multiple times, but are now famous, are J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Beatrice… — Adam Anderson Copy Share Image
