I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
“Literature is not at the service of the government; on the contrary, governments should do everything in their power to create a… — Murong Xuecun Copy Share Image
“The book borrower… proves himself to be an in venerate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Making films has never just been a job to me; it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting -… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
“As the years go by and I grow older, I feel compelled to record my experiences in wartime Germany. It is important… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
“THE REALISTS Hope that you may understand! What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
There's just something "off" about equating the act of spending three years writing a book with the act of someone exploiting themselves… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
“Is there a certain song you love, or a photograph? Perhaps there is a movie you keep returning to over the years,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I had a column for the 'Seattle Weekly' for five years, and there was one column that was called 'How To Be… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
Of course, authors can still burn their manuscripts - but once something is out in the world, especially if it ever saw… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of… — David Almond Copy Share Image
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Love from novels isn't true love: it ends where it should begin. True love, deep love, grows up with time, throughout days… — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
the process of a book's coming to life is not fully complete until your imagination meets mine on the page. The words… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
“One of the richest pleasures I know of is being housebound because of the wild winter weather outside. With your family about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everybody judges a book by its cover. I can look at 50 books and say every one of those books is bad.… — Daniel Sturridge Copy Share Image
But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Did you ever read The Cat's Revenge , by Claude Balls? Did you ever read The Passionate Russian , by E. Nawdor… — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
“My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book. A message to us from the dead - from human… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches, nor is it a game… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I use a computer, but before I begin each new book I keep a notebook. I write down everything that comes to… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“I’m fine, Ari. Read the book.” “If you’re sure?” He shook his head, lowering his gaze again. “Ari, guys aren’t like girls.… — Samantha Young Copy Share Image
I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money,… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
The plot is very important because writers have to play fair with their readers, but no one would care about the plot… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
“An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover… — Roy Blount Jr Copy Share Image
“When it was proclaimed that the Library contained all books, the first impression was one of extravagant happiness. All men felt themselves… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The pattern recognition theory of mind that I articulate in this book is based on a different fundamental unit: not the neuron… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“there is a man who is mentioned in the Book of Exodus who is named “Nahshon.” And when Moses calls on God… — Emily C. Heath Copy Share Image
I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
At a tender age, I commandeered half a quire of foolscap from my father's desk and sat down to write a book.… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
In terms of the economics, yes obviously the rise of e-books and how people choose to read books has a big effect… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I recommend Doug Sweeney's recent book [Jonathan] Edwards the Exegete (Oxford University Press, 2015), which is a terrific treatment of the way… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
There are many people who say, 'I write for myself.' I think that if you write and publish, then you write for… — Angeles Mastretta Copy Share Image