Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism… Skepticism they view with contempt,… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
As Popa penetrates deeper into his life, with book after book, it begins to look like a Universe passing through a Universe.… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
I used to envy people who had written books, the way I think women envy other women who've had babies. I was… — Joan Juliet Buck Copy Share Image
There is much about the shared terrain of being a black person in the United States that is not seen on small… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
“I had already gained the door; but, reader, I walked back--walked back as determinedly as I had retreated. I knelt down by… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote… — Ihab Hassan Copy Share Image
As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“A Nottinghamshire man called Tubbs wished very much to see a fairy and, from thinking of fairies day and night, and from… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“It is in fact a world of mud and faeces they desire, a world with no Art in it, or anyone like… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“curiosity. In August of 79 A.D., while commanding a fleet in the Bay of Naples, the Roman statesman and author witnessed a… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“People will look at you, what you’re doing, rewriting the regiment rule book, and they’ll want to do the same for themselves.… — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Writing is a physical art. And writing a book is a lot more like making a complex sculpture out of bronze than… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“A novelist must wrestle with all mysteries and strangeness of life itself, and anyone who dies not wish to accept that grand,… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. 'Stiff' was an oddball book - I… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“All the pictures in this book are authentic, vintage found photographs, and with the exception of a few that have undergone minimal… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
A bad book and good marketing won't work, the same way a good book and bad marketing will also not work. There… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“We all travelled light, taking with us only what we considered to be the bare essentials of life. When we opened our… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
“My temperament and my instinct had told me alike that the author, who writes at his own emergency, remains and needs to… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“written works do not produce fast reactions as pictures and sculptures and music do. it takes no effort to see or hear.… — Anneli Rufus Copy Share Image
The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
People review my comic books. People review every article I write - 'The Atlantic' even publishes them. A great deal of the… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The French have a different take on photography than Americans do. They consider photography to be absolutely parallel to literature. That often… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
For 8,000 years, we've had lyric poetry; for 400 years we've had the novel: theatre hands its meaning down in text. Let's… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read… — Harvey Keitel Copy Share Image
“A writer is bound to have varying degrees of success, and I think that that is partly an issue of how central… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
“Every time a written word is put to page it is the opportunity to expand our minds, whether we are the writer… — K. Lamb Copy Share Image
Of tobacco and its consequences, I will say nothing but that the practice is at too bad a pass to leave hope… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
My reputation when I was first here was that I had every single answer in the book. I don't know, maybe I… — Mike Holmgren Copy Share Image
I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I… — Brendan Coyle Copy Share Image
I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Are you sure?" Aidan asked, "Gavriel's still a vampire." "He warned me about you and about them. He didn't have to. I'm… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro,… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like 'Japan is Number One,' most Japanese… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“The mandarins of culture—what do they do to teach the common folk to read? It's no good writing down lists of books… — Christopher Moley Copy Share Image
