“And now the thought came to me that I lived much of my life through the pages of books as well. That… — Linda Holeman Copy Share Image
Elie Wiesel and his book 'Night' have changed my life, shifting the way I see and treat people and inspiring me to… — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
My father claimed I could read before I went to school. I sucked up knowledge and read the Children's Britannica Encyclopaedia from… — Anne Hegerty Copy Share Image
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music. — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
I took that bible and I went home and I held it up and I said God, I really don't know you… — Paula White Copy Share Image
“Today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten.” — Natasha Bedignfield Copy Share Image
“It’s not lit, it’s literature. Lit is something a book can be, after you’ve decided to burn it. (I suggest you start… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“And if literature is not the Bride and Bedfellow of Truth, what is she? 'Confound it all.' he cried, 'why say Bedfellow… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sigh. These were my people now that I was a writer, people who didn't understand anything. I mean, they understood perfectly the… — Claire Dederer Copy Share Image
Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
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In Great Britain, an author published a book in which he claimed that Jesus Christ had children. Such statements don't trigger civil… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
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When I was in the sixth grade my friend and I always won writing contests, and we read a lot of books.… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
I admit my reading time is limited because I can write in the situations and places where people usually read. But reading… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
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There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“And now, O kind-hearted reader, I feel myself constrained, in the telling of this little story, to depart altogether from the principles… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
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“Think of the very words “novel,” “romance” — what do they mean but exaggeration of one bit of life?” — George Gissing Copy Share Image
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You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You may be asking yourself, 'Am I the right type of person to go to this rally?' The fact that you would… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I do a lot of book signings and conventions every year, and I meet a great many readers who are struggling... they're… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
Every first draft sucks, so when you have your favorite novel, and you're like, 'Wow, this is a masterpiece,' and then you… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
From the beginning [of the Lincoln in the Bardo], I actually had it in mind not to write a novel. I'd kind… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge,… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
Here take a page from my book. Guard your tongue well it is the portal to your Reality. — Marv Stark Copy Share Image
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
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