I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“immediately commenced copying them, and in a short time was able to make the four letters named. After that, when I met… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“God perfectly knows Himself and, being the source and author of all things, it follows that He knows all that can be… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“The book depicts thoughts, unveils imaginings, answers unspoken questions, clarifies doubts, resolves arguments, and finally reveals the very atoms of the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
“No season lives here. This space has quite successfully shut out any such interference. The cunning designer saw to it that there… — Geoffrey O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I think a great book—leaving aside other qualities such as narrative power, characterization, style, and so on—is a book that describes the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“If you live in the midst of bad people, bad books, and bad things, you lose your power of detecting bad thoughts… — F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer Copy Share Image
After writing about addiction in a pair of books, I frequently hear from addicts and their family members about serial relapses followed… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
Many European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Israel, and New Zealand, have adopted legislation that creates a 'public lending right', where… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“The books are hard. But the more she asked, the more the children gave. And, though they never saw her, there were… — Parents' National Education Union Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm perverse, but the question of "rooting" for a character, or setting out to write a character for whom other people… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
“In the Gospels the emphasis is on the death of Christ. In the Epistles the emphasis is upon the resurrection of Christ.… — J. Vernon McGee Copy Share Image
“I grew up listening to my mother scoff at all the T.V shows and books that I watched or read. She told… — Trisscar Copy Share Image
Philosophy treats of physics where a more careful knowledge is required because the problems which come under this head are numerous... So… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
“Is not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning… — W.K. Wimsatt Copy Share Image
“A modern reader of literal inclinations might also see the destruction of the historic churches of Africa and Asia as a form… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“In her book, Robin implied that we hadn’t slept together, but I actually nailed her the first or second night when she… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“What shall I do with all my books?' was the question, and the answer, 'Read them,' sobered the questioner. But if you… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Why else do we read anyway? I think most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I'd thought I'd constructed a really wonderful book, and the teacher told me that my story basically began on page fifty, and… — Rich Ferguson Copy Share Image
I brewed potions in a vain search for life everlasting, I read books, I sang songs of history, And today I've come… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
“When I stepped into the brown-tiled entryway of the Kentwood Public Library, the sunlight flowing down on me from the high windows,… — Bich Minh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“External conflict is the sizzle that gets bottoms in movie seats and books on bestseller lists. As consumers, we have concrete expectations… — Shawn Coyne Copy Share Image
We all draw inspiration from women whose names make the headlines and whose stories are in the history books, but often our… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life,… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
I tend to go back and forth between old favourites and "new" stuff, some of which could easily be by authors I've… — Gemma Files Copy Share Image
Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
To learn a piece on the piano - even a simple one - has proved every bit as agonizing as writing a… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
“I cannot imagine a life without books. Without Father's stories of the ancient Greek gods and goddesses, without pirate stories and fairy… — Jessica Spotswood Copy Share Image
God knows life sucks. It's right there in the Bible. The book of Job is all about Job asking God to take… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“A good vocabulary,’ he once wrote (April 1959), ‘is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show, That she (dear she) might take some pleasure of my pain;… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
