“Goods and chattel. The words from the leather book came into my head. We were like the gold leaf mirror and the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“The Book of Army Management says: On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough: hence the institution… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“In many ways this book is about how we fail to reckon with the past, not so much as a historical reconstruction… — Wendy Lower Copy Share Image
It's easy to be pessimistic. Nobody needs to be taught how. You don't need to buy a book on it. You don't… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If a parent doesn't want his/her child to read a book then there is always an alternative text to read. But the… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The Bible is one book, written by one Author, with one subject: Jesus Christ and the salvation God...provides through Him. — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9, — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
You know I read that if you don't have sex for a year, you can actually become re-virginised. — Charlotte York Copy Share Image
“A mnogo je bolje da knjiga bude pas nego zlatna ribica. S psom, naime, možete komunicirati, on vam uzvraća ljubav, vaše se… — Pavao Pavličić Copy Share Image
Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“A blanket would be a great surface to print my new book on, so you could read it in bed while you’re… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Darwinians have always owed their readers a translation manual that would "cash" the teleological language which Darwinians avail themselves of without restraint… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Only in the movies or comic books do people say they want you to go and hit somebody. All they ever say… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Intellectuals of [Albert] Camus' age who had previously disliked him now appreciate him. And at that point we come back to literature,… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
We were quite a middle class family, but we had access to all the good things in life, be it books or… — Kiran Rao Copy Share Image
I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower. — Lorde Copy Share Image
“To understand what you read you must at first understand the mind in which they grew.” — Anthony T. Hincks Copy Share Image
I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
I used to love reading, but since I've started writing, it's harder for me to immerse, because I spend so much time… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like its all perfectly normal in the… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“True learning happens when books and friends, writing and understanding intermingle in a rich soup of participation.” — R. David Lankes Copy Share Image
I meditated on my own for some time, read spiritual books, became a vegetarian and had incredible experiences every day, every meditation,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Socrates did not think much of books and the written word; as a proponent of oral storytelling, he thought the written word… — Nicholas Kardaras Copy Share Image
“An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author's demise.” — Dan Makaon Copy Share Image
“The forbidden cabinet. The forbidden fruit. That fruit is—a volume, a huge blue-lilac volume with a gold inscription slantwise: Collected Works of… — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I've always read, I've always admired writers and was lucky really to meet some extraordinary ones and become friends. Certain times you… — David Salle Copy Share Image
“I think she was in a book club for a while, but she quit when they stopped talking about the books and… — Kathryn Davis Copy Share Image
There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“I hate anything superficial. But I will take the book and look at it, and tell you what I think of the… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“I read way too much given all I want to do every day, and I only recommend books I really like.” — Gary Lincoff Copy Share Image
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