“This time Simone did not smile at all. "I cannot tell that to you, child. This is a secret I am not… — Leora Cika Waldman Copy Share Image
Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“book (you are SO going to need a copy of this!) The Boat Owner’s Mechanical and Electrical Manual. This is the sea… — Rick Page Copy Share Image
“Books; what a jolly company they are, Standing so quiet and patient on their shelves, Dressed in dim brown, and black, and… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
I am thinking to write a book about facebook people psychology, so at least people like me can understand, why some people… — Rajesh Copy Share Image
For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In an effort to make 'em all see what I found in my life I decided to give 'em a look. None… — Sage Francis Copy Share Image
It's true that when I was younger and I first got interested in music, I used to read books about the Stones… — Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Copy Share Image
The thing that made me turn more towards writing was realizing how hard it was going to be to get a singular… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
FACEBOOK, slutbook,meet juss to fuck book,trying to be sneaky but then get caught up book, shamebook,lamebook,using a fake name book,corny in the… — Kayla Jay Copy Share Image
I do believe any hero is a person that can be knocked down. A failure isn't a person who gets knocked down;… — Sam Worthington Copy Share Image
When depicting Asian people in movies, books, and television or as historical figures, it's more important to humanize them and give them… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
“And they lived happily ever after” is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It is tragic because it tells a… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so… — Maggie Grace Copy Share Image
I don't believe that fiction is dead. I know there are some people who believe that it's an outdated art form, and… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
“They read a little bit, write a little, and especially agree with themselves on important moves, important information, important awards, important writers… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Most remember the groundbreaking first in sports; few remember the third or fourth to follow in those tracks. That's not downplaying anyone's… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
“Taylor had been a book lover her entire life and, even at twenty-six, loved nothing more than curling up and getting lost… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
“Books, by imparting a sense of continuity and context, can enlarge the imagination and enable one to weigh evidence, compare and contrast… — Kipling Buis Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a book, and I'm warned, 'Oh, this is unsaleable, you need to make it shorter,' or, 'It has to… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'll read pretty much anywhere and anytime, but for a while now, I've really enjoyed reading on flights, especially the longer hauls,… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
The misfortunes which God is represented in the book of Job as allowing Satan to inflict on Job, merely to test his… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
You be sure to throw the book at him, you hear me? I feel violated, Detective. Violated." "I'll throw this table at… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
What works for me is simply to read a lot of stuff throughout the year - not with a particular story or… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Literature speaks with everyone individually - it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
“Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts time and space on quite… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I think Roland read 'Primal Scream' first and then gave it to me. This was, I think, even prior to 'The Graduate'… — Curt Smith Copy Share Image
Because I think of novels as collaborative enterprises between the writer and the reader, all of my novels so far have ending… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Comic book readers are just as abandoned by the corporate system as the creators, despite the importance supposedly given their hard-earned dollars.… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
“You kids today don’t understand. You go into the stalls, and you sit on the toilets, and you read your comic books.… — Beth Labonte Copy Share Image
For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling… — Chris Evans Copy Share Image
Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“In her classic book "When Things Fall Apart," Pema Chodron says that everyone and everything is always falling apart. At times we… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
I thought I'd write a massive postmodern novel about Richard the Lionheart and Robin Hood, but it turns out they couldn't have… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“There are good and great books on the Esquire list, though even Moby-Dick, which I love, reminds me that a book without… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
