“If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Miss Birkinshaw was like an old ivory carving, Prudence thought, ageless, immaculate, with lace at her throat. She had been the same… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Scientists now know the brain receives 400 billion bits of information each second. To give you some idea of just how much… — Pam Grout Copy Share Image
One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
For me, not just the character of 'Ender', but the whole world is so beautifully crafted in the novel that I wasn't… — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very… — Richard Scarry Copy Share Image
“When Jamie left for basic training I knew exactly what I had to do. Of course, I knew what it feels like… — Noah Galloway Copy Share Image
“An author's dream does not necessarily come instantly. Rather, it is cultivated and nurtured, every epiphany and idea are like rain drops… — M.J. Stoddard Copy Share Image
“In fact, over the last twenty years, authors have offered up over nine thousand different systems, languages, principles, and paradigms to help… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
I'm not good at sports, but I do exercise because we have to move. Besides walking my dog four times a day,… — Maye Musk Copy Share Image
“What an interesting choice of words. “Not real, and never were.” Could there be any more appropriate literature for men of our… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“There is more important things in life to worry about instead of leaving nasty negative reviews on books. It shows a lot… — Rain Darrow Copy Share Image
“I know that sounds too earnest, but it’s true. I mean, I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I like people who love books and movies and art and want to talk about it all the time, because that's basically… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Read as little as possible in the way of aesthetics and criticism - it will either be partisan views, fossilized and made… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I had an idea for a medical conspiracy thriller. Since it was non-horror, I didn't want the publishers and editors bringing a… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
There's a different experience when you're reading a book rather than when you're seeing something on screen. When you're seeing a movie… — Holland Taylor Copy Share Image
When we read a literary work (or, in some instances, listen to music) our imagination is stimulated, we feel various emotions, and… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
It's like when you read a book and you know that the words are important, but the images blossoming in your imagination… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
While I was writing my book, I got a top police official in Bombay an invitation to study terrorism at the Rand… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share Image
You need to take small steps when you dream big dreams. I am a published author with dyslexia, a professional speaker who… — Karl Mecklenburg Copy Share Image
I would argue, for perspective's sake, that the arc of a really literary work is precisely that it both intensely reflects, and… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
And when the book of Daniel was showed to him (Alexander the Great) wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should… — Josephus Copy Share Image
A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I don't read good books anymore, it seems; I just buy them and put them on the shelf and every now and… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing.… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“And all the while I have people telling me, at least you still have something of your husband . Do they mean… — Marie Brennan Copy Share Image
“this art wasn’t exactly a novelty for him, and he shyly observed that, having nowhere to go and nothing to do, nor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Equiano, one of the luckiest among them, acquired an education, freed himself, and wrote a book in 1789: The Interesting Narrative of… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“I looked over Emma’s shoulder. I recognized the girls in the photos. I understood we used to be close. But they were… — Sarah Shepard Copy Share Image
“If a book cover has raised lettering, metallic lettering, or raised metallic lettering, then it is telling the reader: Hello. I am… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
