Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
I'm certainly a plot and character man. Themes, structure, style - they're valid components of a novel and you can't complete the… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
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People who know and read comics know that there's a huge diversity amongst the types of stories. Nobody ever goes 'how many… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986. — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
For 'Picture This,' I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn't have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical. I… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
The life of an open book, is the biggest advantage to keep you feel ashamed remembering that could not.Google has an impressive… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes… — Joshua Rogers Copy Share Image
“First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.” — Martin Myers Copy Share Image
Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
I was as bad as it gets. What I wrote in the book, I was probably worse than that. I couldn't really… — Reginald Arvizu Copy Share Image
I've adapted my own work a couple of times, and I've also given my novels to other people to adapt, and I… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
“Giving a child a book is better than any toy you can buy, even a fidget spinner.” — Sonia Cunningham Leverette Copy Share Image
“To judge from their writings, there are certain ladies who think that an amazing ignorance, both of science and of life, is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“You turn the lights on and off here and if you can’t sleep and want something to read there are books in… — Shannon MacLeod Copy Share Image
“In The Gutenberg Elegies, Sven Birkerts laments the loss of “deep reading,” which requires intense concentration, a conscious lowering of the gates… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
It's a challenge to turn a book series into a television series; you need to keep people on their toes, but you… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like. If you find… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“I find myself subject to the entire range of emotions and reactions that a great book will call forth from its reader.… — Ammon Shea Copy Share Image
I think we are very environmental people. We need to be supported environmentally. Books very much have that imprint on the mind. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
“I was sitting behind the book counter reading through a magazine someone had left behind and Tex was sitting in the middle… — Kristen Ashely Copy Share Image
I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be! — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
“What reader or dreamer doesn’t imagine the romantic life of a writer, who lingers between the desk and the fridge in the… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
When I came to America, I saw the inequality right away with the food industry. And I don't really talk about it… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
I was really rudderless at one point my life. And once I started reading books, then I got the idea that maybe… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“It is my greatest wish that victims of paranormal attack are treated with the respect and compassion they deserve, and that by… — Caroline Mitchell Copy Share Image
“...it all remained unreadable for him, though reading, he felt, was not a natural thing and should not be done to people.… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“[The laws of logic] were placed in our minds by the Creator during the act of creation. We speak because God has… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“There are only one or two repeats in the whole book. So that got me thinking polyalphabetic substitution.” — Christa Faust Copy Share Image
“Most of us live in two worlds - our real world and the one we build or spin for ourselves out of… — Julia L. Sauer Copy Share Image
“He got up. It was too early to go to bed; at least, he was not in the mood for it. He… — George Orwell Copy Share Image