What I strive to do is make my characters seem like real people so that the reader experiences them as people -… — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
Books look handsome and it's a real singular experience getting to go to a bookstore. I don't want to not do that. — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Regardless of what I do, whether I write a book or whether I act or whether I host, I'll always do stand-up… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We know from this book entitled... What is it? Surrendered? Succumbed? I can never remember the title perform. And we learn from… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Try to avoid your house catching fire, as this does no good at all. And while your house is still intact, it… — Joseph Connolly Copy Share Image
Intrigue is so much more effective. I don't like to be over-prescriptive of an audience. The same with a book or with… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
“Authors go on writing books, and so we go on reading them. It is a sad state of affairs.” — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“A novel is not an allegory...it is a sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors… — Anna Thomas Copy Share Image
“I close my eyes, and words from an old book flow from my lips. “From flame to ashes, dawn to dusk, for… — Laura Thalassa Copy Share Image
“A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.” — Christy Leigh Stewart Copy Share Image
“No I try and set my books in lots of different locales. Variety is the spice of life!” — Cathy Williams Copy Share Image
I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything… — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
