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“So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation which, in the midst of civilization, artificially… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money. — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
Young adult fiction is getting more popular among adults because the writer is trying hard all the time to maintain the reader's… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
“We're quiet then, quiet enough that I can hear the books around me creaking in their shelves, rustling their pages, stretching their… — Katie Williams Copy Share Image
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection... — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I knew right from the beginning that if I was going to write a book, I would write my version of the… — Manisha Koirala Copy Share Image
The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . .… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A book is not only written - after it's finished it starts writing you, the writer. You become its notebook, its sheet… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
Some people might be surprised that 'Rambo's creator has a doctorate in American literature. One of my influences is Henry James, whose… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house… — Nate Copy Share Image
You need to be growing and getting better, and in L.A., it's so hard to get bookings. You literally have to pay… — Andy Grammer Copy Share Image
Experts generally agree that taking all opportunities to read books and other material aloud to children is the best preparation for their… — Lilian Katz Copy Share Image
To be in a band with the other founding members that never sleep is inspiring. Questlove put out five books a year… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
“A bad review – or several— is, of course, one of the unavoidable pitfalls of being published.Some authors cry. Others get drunk.… — C.W. Gortner Copy Share Image
“Each New Year, we have before us a brand new book containing 365 blank pages. Let us fill them with all the… — Peggy Toney Horton Copy Share Image
“Let's make sure our ideas of success are our own, that we are truly the authors of our own ambitions.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's… — Tara Bray Smith Copy Share Image
Books build a stairway to your imagination, that one day may become a Reality, with knowledge obtained through books. — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
One of my rules about writing exercises is you never are allowed to put them in your book because it's just too… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“He is here with me in this chamber of mine: I must not trifle. He leans over me, he puts his finger… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“I have books to read, and much to sit and watch. I try not to let good things go by unnoticed.” — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Finally, bookshelves can be a terrifying place for debut writers, especially those who are marginalized. Writers who are queer, trans, BIPOC, disabled,… — Frances White Copy Share Image
When I first met my husband, he had a very good job - company car, pension plan, grudging respect from his staff… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little,… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
“Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“And you wait. You wait for the one thing that will change your life, make it more than it is— something wonderful,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
During the process of writing the book, I had this experience that was telling for me. I got it and the basic… — Valerie Estelle Frankel Copy Share Image
