There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have seen and drawn dying, poisoned worlds. I published a book of drawings called 'Death of Wood' about one such world,… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t a lonely kid—I was good at being alone. I’d read books, play with the toy that I had, make up… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“I guess they were telling the truth when they said you carried forbidden books to the factory." "Who said so?" asked Pavel.… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
“This is because white people need to show off the books that they have read. Just as hunters will mount the heads… — Christian Lander Copy Share Image
“Reading is not as insignificant as we claim. First we must steal the key to the library. Reading is a provocation, a… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
We had absolutely no experience in writing kids books and its a very competitive market. But we buy and read a lot… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
That movie [A Series of Unfortunate Events] told four books in two hours, and we have two hours per book. So we… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as I begin… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
“I've been deflecting Calypso's blushes all day. I don't have the energy to deflect yours," he said through clenched teeth. "So either… — T.L. McCallan Copy Share Image
Dear Roberta Sparrow, I have reached the end of your book and... there are so many things that I need to ask… — Donnie Darko Copy Share Image
“Yes, our Father has a plan, Ciminae,” he said. “But he leaves it up to his children to accept his will. It… — Shaun F. Messick Copy Share Image
“The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical value: the essence of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt demonstrated the power of a novel as a teaching tool through his book, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“THE CHIANTI KISSES SERIES Book #1: BABY V Book #2: BOSS Book #3: BETRAYED MY SOUL TO WAKE Book #1: STAIN… — Tara Oakes Copy Share Image
“It was not merely that his brother was dead. His brain, too young to realize the full paradox, wondered with an obscure… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I have to go with what comes naturally to me. Fantasy isn't my thing. I did enjoy the Oz books when I… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
The selection of topics for intensive research has often been a function of serendipitous opportunity. My forays into philosophy of education were… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
It seems to me to make as much sense to talk about literature as a large-scale human phenomenon without bringing in evolution… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“But it rained all the time, fog covered the fields, and by then he was reading Tolstoy. There were some books that… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“Many of the names in this book are thus the sort people call "traditional." Others couldn't be further from traditional if they… — K.M. Sheard Copy Share Image
“But that was not all. He foresaw a time when men, exultant in the technique of homicide, would rage so hotly over… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
You know, if you read a book, once you get to chapter five and stuff starts stepping up, it doesn't mean chapters… — Tyson Kidd Copy Share Image
“and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
You can go to the pictures or read a book, but football constantly comes back into your mind. It's not a job,… — Howard Wilkinson Copy Share Image