To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
English teachers tend to put more thought in the books than the author did — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“More, much more, will happen after this. Things involving maps and books and true love and tragedy, tragedy like you wouldn't believe.… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I don't read the script a zillion times, I don't like to analyze things and my mind can go there very easily. — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel… — Marianne Vos Copy Share Image
I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I've read a lot of Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Glue - he's written some beauties. — Andrew Flintoff Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
“To those great geniuses now in petticoats, who shall write novels for the beloved reader's children, these men and things will be… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of… — Whitney Balliett Copy Share Image
It is no secret that I have read 'The Da Vinci Code' several times. I genuinely believe that 'The Da Vinci Code'… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I sometimes think I should write a book. I've seen some things, you know, but it's all there in the songs. — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“helping me. It’s a full-time job, and I am grateful for your concern for my reader friends. Of course, thanks to my… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
“The characteristics of this kind of reading are perhaps summed up in the word “orthodox,” which is almost always applicable. The word… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“Please could I say one word?" was the question three times repeated before a rough head boobed out from the grotto of… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic,… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
