“Yes, I was scared, vulnerable, and fragile and lived in books more than real life. Yet there was nothing Mom could do… — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share Image
Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
Many of the books on my list are, in my opinion, amazing. Some I didn't like. But I give them all five… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
I recommend for any basic course on the Beat Generation to familiarize yourself with 'The Idiot,' Prince Myshkin. He was Dostoyevsky's idea… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
My fans probably know what I had for breakfast that morning. And that's the cool part. And I respond to people, if… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
Sometimes female characters start out as the wife or girlfriend, but then I realize, 'No, she's the book,' and she becomes a… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Superman has evolved continually in the comic books over the course of 75 years. He couldn't even fly for years in the… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
What women represent to the male is, historically, a big burden. It's a lovely dream, but it's the stuff of literature, art,… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“If Laura was so prolific with poems, and in truth she was, then what was the problem with Megan’s request? Couldn’t Laura,… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
“He liked to say that what makes literature is “inventing truly from honestly acquired knowledge, so that what you make up is… — Paul Hendrickson Copy Share Image
“Every man should make the effort occasionally to throw the rule book out,” I said. “It doesn’t matter if the relationship is… — Jason Luke Copy Share Image
The novels are always morphing into something else now, some kind of hybrid, more of a ground that isn't so easily specified.… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
“I was, I remember, nineteen years old, wrote poems, still wore no proper collar, ran out in the rain and snow, always… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“if i had much money to spend i would like to bought a books...if there's plenty more left i would bought a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By the end of the book, it is quite different than the way you thought it would be when you started the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“In the meantime, if you're not into the world you live in, you can build your own world around you.[...]Surround yourself with… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“[A]fter all, the position of a reader in a book is very like that occupied by angels in the world, when angels… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Publishing a book is a great thing, and I'm grateful, but it's also a horrible, exposing thing. Once you've published a book,… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
“I went through and underlined all the funny lines in his book, and by the time I was done, I had underlined… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
“I always say that you cannot tell what a picture really is or what an object really is until you dust it… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“Always be reading. Go to the library. There's magic in being surrounded by books. Get lost in the stacks. Read bibiliographies. It's… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment… The world, you must… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill… — Stephen Harrigan Copy Share Image
“(Mind you, according to Walter Benjamin, the twentieth century’s great philosopher of collecting, browsing and what we’d now call vintage shopping, ‘the… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
Pour e crire ce livre essentiel, le seul livre vrai, un grand e crivain n'a pas, dans le sens courant, a' l'inventer… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Do you do magic?” “I do magic every day.” His face became serious. “Every time I sell a book. I offer adventure… — CeeCee James Copy Share Image
'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
I'm no prophet, but I'm guessing that comic books will always be strong. I don't think anything can really beat the pure… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
“Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep… — George Fillmore Swain Copy Share Image
“Jane Austen makes me detest all her characters, without reserve. Is that her intention? It is not believable. Then is it her… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Around the tenth time reading some of these books to your kids, you begin to develop some really strong opinions and questions… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
There were momentary visitations. I was a visitor, not an inhabitant. I think I say that at the beginning of the book:… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D.… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“For weeks Octavio returned to the shelter of the trees. The woman would appear as the sun reached midday. She would walk… — C.S. Richardson Copy Share Image
If one person in America had starved over the last 20 years, you, reader, would know his name. The media would see… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
So…” Kimball looks at his book helplessly. “There’s nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?” “Well.” I sigh. “He led what… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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