“I like simple things, books, being alone, or someone who understands.” — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“Can one understand the presence of English literature without the absences of Irish literature? Are the presences in the former, at some… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Many universities no longer focused almost entirely on religious studies. Students now explored the liberal arts—including the literature, music, and art of… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
I like to read, especially nonfiction. I love learning, so I study languages, cook, learn basic HTML, and enjoy other activities that… — Joshua Roman Copy Share Image
There are so many ways in which we learn about life and the self. Each day opens paths to this exploration. For… — Ashley Bryan Copy Share Image
You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Books are like the last parachute in the dying situation in the plane of life, helpful to soothe the sorrows and get… — Farid Copy Share Image
Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: “If this is really the unaided work of a young lady,… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Why do we write novels or make television about real things? It's the human condition and human suffering. — Ioan Gruffudd Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was poor, growing up, because everyone was in the same boat. I couldn't have bikes. It never really… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
But I don't know, maybe it's just as well I never got there. I dreamed about it for so many years. I… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I sometimes think about that, when I finish in something big I find it even hard, I feel like I lose an… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
We certainly have a lot of ideas, and we both love what Tony [Fucile] did with the book [Bink & Gollie]. If… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I’m not selling you a Sylvia Day book for a buck! The sex scenes alone are worth at least five! How would… — Lucy Score Copy Share Image
Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Now what good would that have done? They wouldn't know they'd asked a dumb question, but I didn't want to insult them,… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Having 'The Expats' not be 'wholesale-y' rejected by the world made it possible for me to write the second book and have… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado. — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
I have sought for happiness everywhere, but I have found it nowhere except in a little corner with a little book. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
I'd like to think that my scripts are more significant than maybe the Bible or the book that the Jews use, whatever… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it… — Rudolf Nureyev Copy Share Image
“This is not a book of writing advice. It’s not here to help make you a better writer. Rather, it’s here to… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“Science speaks in equations. Sufism speaks in silence. This book lives in the space between.” — Neşe Sedetmen Copy Share Image
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