The purpose of bread and circuses is, as Neil Postman said in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, to distract, to divert… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Readers find most flashbacks intolerable. Yet a lot of neophyte writers flash back like mad. Why? No one but the Creator of… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted… — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking… — Mike Robbins Copy Share Image
I don't think my book is any more shocking than if I went out right now and brought back your local newspaper… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how molecular evolution… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
“How intimately I experience in my heart just what he must have felt in all of those unknown rooms, some of them… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie. A good adaptation of your book is… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
George Bush says, 'Gore's book needs a lot of explaining.' Of course, Bush says that about every book. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“We live in an odd world, where books are filled with expressions of love, and lives devoid of it.” — Meeta Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
I'm not a completely closed book; I'm a social person and if I see something worth sharing, I'm happy to do that. — Josh Duhamel Copy Share Image
The herbalist I met a few times - it was great - she gave me literature about the different processes that an… — Caitriona Balfe Copy Share Image
I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“If you are unable to find the right environment, make one of your OWN and surround yourself with books, music and activities… — Vincent Wambua Nzoka Copy Share Image
'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have. — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Once in a rare while, you get to read a story of such breathtaking beauty and intelligence that you remember why you… — Robin Oliveira Copy Share Image
