Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“You know what? Forget the warning. Read the book. Go insane. See if I care.” — Jonathan L. Howard Copy Share Image
Any opportunity to play Ms. Marvel or project myself into her in any version, comic book movie, otherwise, I'll be happy to. — Iman Vellani Copy Share Image
“What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all… — John Bright Copy Share Image
“Because if someone is determined to do something evil there’s really no stopping them. It’s not the music they listen to, in… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“When you told me you wrote a book, I laughed. Then I read it, and I wasn't laughing any more. It was… — My Husband about Demon Mine Copy Share Image
Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“done coma, walking/talking,art, cookery. scouts then wrote two books, asked for help, gave a book to HRH Princess Anne, tried publisher, got… — Gillian Firth Copy Share Image
When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“In the morning it was morning and I was still alive. Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought. And then I did.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Book critics or theatre critics can be derisively negative and gain delighted praise for the trenchant with of their review. But in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fields. In the case… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“The authors challenge that the marriage in which one cannot express disappointment has become an idol – The Thing that Cannot Be Questioned.” — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
“No shame in having a ghostwriter," Storm said. "Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose… — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
“was remembering the illustrations from Morally Instructive Tales for the Nursery, which was one of the books in the schoolroom. The two… — Holly Webb Copy Share Image
“Write non-fiction like fiction, so the reader is constantly turning the page to find out what happens next, and write fiction like… — Jeffrey Robinson Copy Share Image
“. . . according to Lem's Law, 'No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
“Not all guns have to be fired. A pistol is just a tool and where I am living is not a story… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“will wear you out in a hurry. But because I make my living writing books, I would really like to ask your… — Subjudica House Copy Share Image
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
The Book of Job is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of nature. Leviathan is advice on… — Donald Phillip Verene Copy Share Image
I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us.… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
“She remembered one of her boyfriends asking, offhandedly, how many books she read in a year. "A few hundred," she said. "How… — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
“I'm reading a book that actually scares me. It is not a form of fear that is embodied in some irrational phobia… — Aliaa El-Nashar Copy Share Image
“It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acquaintance of men of… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“There could be no better time to read THE END OF BLISS, Rhonda Cutler's beautifully researched and heartfelt novel about another of… — Rhonda Ringler Cutler Copy Share Image
