I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Science which has become a great power in the last century, has analyzed everything divine handed down to us in the holy… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“A lofty breeze rushed by, threatening to brush him over the ridge. He looked with hardened eyes off into the East as… — Evan Grinde Copy Share Image
In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels. — William Safire Copy Share Image
“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades,… — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
It used to be that the highest ambition of American novelists was to write 'the Great American Novel,' that great white whale… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time. — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“Until recently, I was an ebook sceptic, see; one of those people who harrumphs about the “physical pleasure of turning actual pages”… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
The American people are screaming out saying it's unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the… — David Plouffe Copy Share Image
When I began to read as an adult, my first big enthusiasm was Evelyn Waugh. I read almost exclusively novelists of a… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
“The author chuckles at the resistance to using a prepared, written liturgy in prayer. He compares it to being unwilling to dress… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
When my plans to become a world-famous rockstar didn't pan out, I decided to try being a lesbian instead, didn't pull that… — Jen Sincero Copy Share Image
“You’re terrifying the way a book is right before it ends. You know? When you have to put it down because it’s… — Cecilia Vinesse Copy Share Image
“I was downstairs, reading." " Now?" I strained to see her face. She was smiling, it appeared. "Yes, now," she said. "It's… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
It's true that misunderstanding and lack of understanding are often themes in my fiction, but I am grateful for the moments when… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Being a parent is the toughest thing I've ever done. But I'm not the kind of person to throw my kid in… — Eric Dane Copy Share Image
