In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
“You must never be limited by external authority, whether it be vested in a church, man, or book. It is your right… — Bhagat Singh Thind Copy Share Image
“FROM ELEANOR GILLON I finished Racing with the Rain this morning and WOW, what a great book. It kept me wondering what… — Eleanor Gillon Copy Share Image
It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh my research. Well, I got an English Degree. And I got that degree in a certain time/at a certain place. If… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved. — Willis Lamb Copy Share Image
There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted… — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
“Every writer at least once in his/er lifetime creates a character who loves books.” — Himanshu Chhabra Copy Share Image
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I'm used to comic books being reimagined, different takes on some of our beloved superheroes. — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
“Is this a case of “Do as I say, not as I do?” The reader has a perfect right to ask the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
There are some really great books that have been written about slavery, but I don't think that the discourse about it in… — James McBride Copy Share Image
She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
It wasn't until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“I write books that I want to read. I write books that feature curvy heroines because I'm a curvy woman myself and… — Seraphina Donavan Copy Share Image
“The author and publisher and any subsequent distributors of this work also assume no responsibility for any errors, assumptions, or interpretations you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being from Russia, I respect all of the comic books American people love. We do follow it a lot. — Svetlana Khodchenkova Copy Share Image
Over the four years we have made massive progress: winning the League Championship (97/98); building the largest club stadium in the UK… — Fergus McCann Copy Share Image
My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables.… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
“And there are millions of teens who read because they are sad and lonely and enraged. They read becuase they live in… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking… — Skip Horack Copy Share Image
“You should carry the monastery in yourself. The desert is within you. The desert calls you and draws you back. . .… — Dennis Patrick Slattery Copy Share Image
“Let the grass die. I let almost all of my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face. — Carl Barks Copy Share Image
Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil? — John Gay Copy Share Image
“...if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the Negro from savagery and helping prepare him… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“A writer edits his thoughts more thoroughly the more readers he has. You can tell I only have two readers, myself included.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
