Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I publish six books a year now, which is very exciting. But it keeps me into my typewriter at all times! Now… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I’m not wise at all. I told you, I know nothing. I know books, and I know how to string words together—it… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“If history records good things of good men, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good: or if it records… — Bede Copy Share Image
He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: It fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach real life. She said she didn't… — Phillip Hoose Copy Share Image
Self-help books for those who believe 'You can have it all' often advise, 'Follow your bliss and money will follow.' With the… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“I struggle each day not to let the fear of the censor poison my writing. Where the censor rules, a dull sameness… — Harry Mazer Copy Share Image
[Confiscating a book and punishing its author] is a sign that one does not have a good case, or at least doesn't… — Laszlo Radvanyi Copy Share Image
I love the good old book with glue and binding, I really do, but that is just one way of experiencing text,… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
If you read some of the recent literature, there is no such thing as whiteness. But we made it up. Not my… — Gregg Popovich Copy Share Image
It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“...these phones are not for transmitting literature; they are news lines, dedicated to the who, the what, the when, the where, and… — Amy Rowland 2 Copy Share Image
They belong to their readers now, which is a great thing–because the books are more powerful in the hands of my readers… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement."… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the… — Burt Ward Copy Share Image
I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by… — Charlotte Dacre Copy Share Image
It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning,… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
“This is because white people need to show off the books that they have read. Just as hunters will mount the heads… — Christian Lander Copy Share Image
“The notebook smelled the way old books do, like dust and unrealized potential.” — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
“Such are contrasts we see every day in the world. Joy and Sorrow! But Joy is an exile from Heaven who does… — Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga Copy Share Image
“When I wrote The Betsy, I spent a lot of time in Detroit with the Ford family. The old man running the… — Harold Robbins Copy Share Image
If you see the fury and hear the howling of the tempest, or read of shipwrecks, think of the storm of human… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
The books I've written the fastest were the best reviewed and sold the best. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Being loved sounds good in the movies, in books, in the memories of people who’ve survived the rough beginnings of their love.… — Steph Campbell Copy Share Image
Reading a book and having to re-read the same paragraph over and over again because your thoughts are too distracting. — AmiT Copy Share Image
[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare,… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The balance between literature and philosophy in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is different from that struck in the novella, but, as Mann clearly… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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