My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
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“In his book Politics, which is the foundation of the study of political systems, and very interesting, Aristotle talked mainly about Athens.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“This book is dedicated to my parents, Ami and Abba. Your undying love for me, even when you feel I have sinned… — Nabeel Qureshi Copy Share Image
My sense of the poet is classical - the poet is one who makes poems. In each book, I develop and repeat… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There… — John Howe Copy Share Image
“Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I've got one of Darwin's books at home and some of that stuff is pretty damn funny. Some of his stuff is… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
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Let's say I've directed that [writing] energy into writing my latest book but suddenly, I really want to write about an onion.… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
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“Before she came ill, David's mother would often tell him that stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way that people… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
I'm trying to keep it fresh for me. I'm just trying to not bore myself. And if I can do a detective… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“He checked out his surrounding. More books. A drinking fountain. A poster showing a guy slam-dunking a basketball with one hand and… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
With my first few books, I was aiming at an academic audience, basically, to get tenure. You can presuppose a certain amount… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Read him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Meditation has been really helpful for me and music and great books. Deep down, it's just that I feel a connection to… — Mason Jennings Copy Share Image
“Do we really want to be rid of our resentments, our anger, our fear? Many of us cling to our fears, doubts,… — Narcotics Anonymous Copy Share Image
This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
“Books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves. Inside this solitude, we take on contours, textures, perspectives. Heightened language levitates the… — John Leonard Copy Share Image
In recent years I have become more interested in making the critical ideas that I love teaching and talking about available in… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I kept saying to myself, this is a calling that God has given me. And so with intention I said, "Okay I'm… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Monk worked on his remaining Intertect cases at his dining table while I tried to hone my detecting instincts by reading the… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
When I was released by the Americans I read historian Trevor Roper's book, 'The Last Days of Hitler'. Throughout the book like… — Hanna Reitsch Copy Share Image
I've written a book that hopefully will give people a sense of what [presidency] was like. I hope my friends read it… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Once more, he was immersing himself in books, reaching the end of long articles, even going back over paragraphs to make sure… — Julie Highmore Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Tal told me he loved me, and told me and told me, but you don't tell someone that and then tell them… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“What must a text be if it can, by itself in a way, turn itself in order to shine again, after an… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“He loved to read. He loved words, the way they string together into sentences and stories. He wanted to study them, to… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
Those moments when you feel you want to read something truly beautiful. The eyes make a tour of the library, and there… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader,… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
I don't know what of our culture is going to survive, or if we survive. If you look at the Greek plays,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
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