It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths;… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
You plant a garden one flower at a time. ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet… — Jeanne Marie Laskas Copy Share Image
I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Think about all that we've lost that has been said orally because nobody was taking it down. I feel very fortunate to… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test… — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
“Swear words in books have always struck me as lazy and over-familiar. But the ‘c’ word is more than that. It’s used… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job,… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“Love Hurts. I daresay there’s two or three poems, six novels and at least twelve songs on the subject. That’s how the… — Daniel S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
“People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“It is worth noting that a wrong folkoric definition of an Inertial Frame in the Popular Science literature (even in text books)… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“This book is also not intended to be a substitute or replacement for competent medical or psychological treatment when these may be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The architecture for 'Paladin' - given that it's at least three books, with the possibility of more - turned out to be… — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
I don't think my book is any more shocking than if I went out right now and brought back your local newspaper… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Anika’s hand in his felt natural, and the energy between them felt big and important, straight-up literary, like Tristan and Isolde. Cathy… — Leah Konen Copy Share Image
“The novel has been the subject of several scholarly essays and has become a staple of college classes in contemporary fiction (and… — David Markson Copy Share Image
My definition, a definition in the drill books from the time that General Von Steuben wrote the regulations for General George Washington,… — Chesty Puller Copy Share Image
“a fan of author Patrick Lencioni, Stevenson borrows from his concept of "company first" in her leadership program..."In every IT transformation, you… — Martha Heller Copy Share Image
Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
When people say "How do you write a book, how does it all happen?" I say, you line things up, and you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The censors of our age do not yet burn books, they attempt to restrict speech in the name of "offense". The tactics… — Carmine Savastano Copy Share Image
It's a matter of resisting what something made you feel before. And resisting that as a consumer is not easy. I know… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Maugham described the novel as “the story of a nine days wonder in a Lambeth slum” and confessed to being influenced by… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
History has been my primary intellectual passion ever since, as a boy in Southern California, I began reading books on World War… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
I don't really read what people write about me. Someone gives my novel one star; are they a troll? Are they someone… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike;… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“The reading quieted his brain a little. Without Katherine and without the Theorem and without his hopes of mattering, he had very… — John Green Copy Share Image
On her daughter, Jessica: Kids at her school will sidle up to me and say, Does Jessica know what happens in book… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Only that which is innate is genuine and will hold water; and every man who wants to achieve something, whether in practical… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's… — Rachel Zoe Copy Share Image
...Don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story.… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
