“...she talked in one of her memoirs of ignoring her little brother when she was supposed to be looking after him: "I… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying… — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In… — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
“The overriding aim of this book is to seek viable responses to the biggest dilemma of our times: reconciling our aspirations for… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such… — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“love to read, but whenever I pick up a novel that blows me away, I think, There’s no way I have something… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Be Certain: One cannot possibly guess their way through life. As every creation is manifested with a definite purpose by our Creator,… — Therone Shellman Copy Share Image
“If you were mine" Oh my what would I do to be his? He's the only man who has ever set the… — E.L. James Copy Share Image
The world's a book, writ by the eternal art - Of the great author printed in man's heart, 'Tis falsely printed, though… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I don't think people need to know much about me to understand the book, or to enjoy it. The book stands by… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
No other book has been so chopped, knifed, sifted, scrutinized, and vilified. What book on philosophy or religion or psychology or belles… — Bernard Ramm Copy Share Image
An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wonder if Karl Ove Knausgård would've written the same books today had been using Twitter. It wasn't around when he was… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
What writers of fantasy, science fiction, and much historical fiction do for a living is different from what writers of so-called literary… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
I haven't read a lot of science fiction, and I never intend to write it; it seems to happen a little bit… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The more messy women that we put on screen, that we put in books, the more women can feel represented and seen,… — Krysten Ritter Copy Share Image
The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of all the things that the digital revolution has produced, once of the coolest, simplest ones is you can now contact people… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
Not only do I recommend Wendell Berry to anyone who will talk to me for more than seven seconds, but I buy… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
I remember that my sisters gave me this beautiful, like, empty book for Christmas. And I would draw all these beautiful women.… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
“Writers, by their very nature, live a thousand lives and die a thousand times. They experience loss each time a character dies. … — Larry Ray Palmer Copy Share Image
“I learned that there are books and there are readers; given even the worst of circumstances, they get together. In the privacy… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“Tell me something boss. What do you think is the highest form of art? 'Literature," he answered without hesitation. 'Painters and sculptors… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
People would much rather argue their own visions and conceptions about a book than engage in a dialogue with the author, because… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
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My father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
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