The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
When I decided I wanted to become an author, I never thought something I wrote would be used as a way to… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“When I read, I read desperately because I was desperate — desperate to exchange my own anxious thoughts for the calming thoughts… — Sean Norris Copy Share Image
PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Today, the concrete data point strongly in the direction of the God hypothesis. . . . Those who wish to oppose it have no testable… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
A very important part of writing for children is appearing at book festivals, and in libraries and schools. An important part of… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“Her grandfather's books [...] opened before Ada, a world whose colours were so dazzling that reality paled in comparison and faded away.… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
“Once I got home, though, and saw several packages on my front porch, all the crap from the day disappeared. A few… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after reading the Mary Russell… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I hated poetry until someone showed me how to appreciate it. He told me to see poetry as a puzzle. It's up… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read. A library is a resource.… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Well, I'm very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. I never look at fashion magazines. I… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
I make jewelry occasionally. I'm not a hobbyist. I'm a reader, I'm a lover of books, I like to watch movies, but… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The Vedic literatures reveal that prasadam conveys spiritual realization, just as chanting does, but in a less obvious or conspicuous way. You… — Mukunda Goswami Copy Share Image
“He had gone again and, emboldened by his first successful trip, had chosen a different sort of world to enter, that of… — Alan Ryan Copy Share Image
We're at a point nowhere it has to change. We have characters that are not alive that are alive in the book.… — Scott M. Gimple Copy Share Image
“Madame Magloire sometimes called him ‘Your Highness.’ One day, rising from his armchair, he went to his library for a book. It… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Criticism is now become mere hangman's work, and meddles only with the faults of authors ; nay, the critic is disgusted less… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The book you read and read well, over and over again, lives in you, becomes your thought and thinking pattern, teaches you… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
When I taught, a lot of my students weren't big readers, so they would write something and I realized that they thought… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Very much in my books people find not surrogate families because they are real families. We've got families that we're related to… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
The books on my nightstand are so bizarre, very eclectic - like, every German author, and then I have a couple of… — Jenny Mollen Copy Share Image
I was first published as a paranormal author back in the early 1990s. I was one of the founders of that original… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could… — Grace Willows Copy Share Image
People think writing is a very distinguished, cerebral thing, where all you do is write. It doesn't work that way. People have… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I don’t know why the publishers in New York don’t take a tip from Hollywood and just publish the outlines of novels… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
I want to read books and go for walks and make dinner. I guess there are people who love working and that's… — Robert Sean Leonard Copy Share Image
“Heart isn’t something you find in soap operas and Harlequin novels. It’s that pure essence–sheltered deep inside–that occasionally makes its way to… — James D. Maxon Copy Share Image
My father read Günter Grass. He introduced me to German literature. I believe the first book I read by a German author… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Nothing takes you out of yourself the way a good book does, but at the same time nothing makes you more aware… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
“The disorder in Yashar's apartment was that comfortable littering and stacking that only another writer can recognize as order - the considered… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
If I were doing somebody else's script or I adapted a book by Philip Roth, on set there could be a million… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Off and on for many years, I tried to write a book about my childhood. I’d bring chapters to workshop, to writing… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
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