“The novel is apparently autobiographical and is being publicised as such but Doust has done with his material what so many autobiographical… — Jon Doust Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
But your book is wrong, Mrs. Strunk, says George, when it tells you that Jim is the substitute I found for a… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Book lovers, readers who cherish the feel, smell and look of the printed book are concerned about the demise of the printed… — Daniel Alef Copy Share Image
I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I tend to describe recurring themes as being part of a writer's DNA - something so deeply embedded in us that even… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
Most of the books that I've adapted I'm doing because I love the book and I feel like it's a great work… — James Franco Copy Share Image
“Your question is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Libraries' most powerful asset is the conversation they provide - between books and readers, between children and parents, between individuals and the… — Bella Bathurst Copy Share Image
With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I was a kid who loved to read. I read everything I could get my hands on. I didn't have one favorite… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
According to the book Celebrate Today, June 18th is National Splurge Day. Besides being the birthday of Paul McCartney and Isabella Rossellini,… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
I am not in the least eloquent or fluent with languages. My writing on social media is quite pedestrian. But even if… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind… — John Dee Copy Share Image
Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Never love someone whom you think you need to mend – or who makes you feel like you should be mended. There… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been re-painted, every statue and street and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I'm a massive reader. I actually really love to collect antiquarian literature and I love that my job allows me to travel… — Jenna Ortega Copy Share Image
I must follow my Lord. No matter what. I must renew my allegiance every morning. It is His voice I must listen… — Stu Weber Copy Share Image
Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
Irving Wallace wrote a bestselling novel, The Man, in the 1960s about a black man becoming president of the United States. We… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“My answer is that if it be true that every novel contains an element of autobiography—and this can hardly be denied, since… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“This book is a memoir - not of specific life events, but of the processes of dissociation, and of re-enlivening emotions that… — Jessica Stern Copy Share Image
One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
“You always felt destined for stardom of one kind or another. But the fear that maybe that wasn't true wouldn't leave you… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“Not everything in life is so black and white, but the authenticity of the Book of Mormon and its keystone role in… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
What seems beautiful to me, what I should like to write, is a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Typically in my novels the narrator tells a story by remembering, and the memories are colored by this and colored by that.… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
I record all my speeches and have DTP prints of them. When I happened to read the speeches compiled I thought it… — Balachandra Menon Copy Share Image
“Looking back over my own life I here declare without apology that it is the study of God's Word, year after year,… — W. Phillip Keller Copy Share Image
