Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race.… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Literature hasn't come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times - it's still dealing with how one resolves… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, when I put aside my career as an economist. I looked at every book, went to every… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
“To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list. ~John Aikin” — John Aikin Copy Share Image
The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Literature is not an instruction manual. For obvious reasons, this is rarely noted in fiction.” — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, "I will tell… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Alexandria was "the single place on earth where all the knowledge in the entire world was gathered together -- every great play… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
“No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it.” — Paul Leicester Ford Copy Share Image
I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential. — Stanley Walker Copy Share Image
That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“One afternoon he started to talk about his collection of books. Of 3000 books, he found only 30 worth keeping. We were… — Werner Blaser Copy Share Image
There’s no need to get rid of literally hundreds of thousands of books that are fine simply because you have a problem… — Mark Earley Copy Share Image
I always have had a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves. — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
If Im in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, Ooh, how could you cut this down… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“~I am neither an author nor a writer. I am a storyteller with good grammar.~” — Darke Conteur Copy Share Image
Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
'Ready Player One' has it all - nostalgia, trivia, adventure, romance, heart, and, dare I say it, some very fascinating social commentary.… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“For me, dear reader, that place was purgatory incarnate; neither good nor bad, but a gateway to great rewards or even greater… — Joss Sheldon Copy Share Image
Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the novel is not ready to be written because you haven't met the inspiration for your main character yet. Sometimes you… — Jamie Varon Copy Share Image
If you look at my bookings, they've gone down each season. That's something I'm trying to keep improving. On the pitch you… — Wayne Rooney Copy Share Image
“The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
“Criticism of the sanctity of books such as the Qur’an was voiced by the Mu’tazilites, who claimed that the Qur’an should not… — Yaakov Malkin Copy Share Image
It is a happy day when I am asked to publicly recommend a book. It is also a dilemma. When I consider… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I'm not, like, a book guy, but isn't the point of all this book stuff like what Ms. Croft was teaching us… — David Connis Copy Share Image
“Having described the basic methods of Hindu-Arabic arithmetic in the first seven chapters, Leonardo devoted most of the remainder of the book… — Keith J. Devlin Copy Share Image
I used to joke that my next book would be about puppies that have lost a chew toy, and everywhere they went,… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I believe that everybody needs to tell their story - to be heard, to be seen, to be acknowledged, to be understood.… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
