I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the… — John Green Copy Share Image
I only like naturalistic stories. I love short, fantastic stories that cast a spell over the reader, that transport you instantly to… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
When I was about 25, I went to a hand reader, this Indian guy in a funky neighborhood. He said: The height… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
“untrue. The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Parenting is not logical. If it were, we would never have to read a book, never need a family therapist, and never… — Jeanne Elium Copy Share Image
“Readers find most flashbacks intolerable. Yet a lot of neophyte writers flash back like mad. Why? No one but the Creator of… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
“The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Tessa craned her head back to look at Will. “You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“The more freely a librarian mingles with readers, and the greater the amount of assistance he renders them, the more intense does… — Samuel Green Copy Share Image
If you look at the beginning of children's entertainment in literature, the first books that were written for kids were cautionary tales.… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
Novels are routinely denigrated when characters are not found to be likable. Is Raskolnikov likable? Is King Lear? The plethora of such… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I'm just a girl. I love being called pretty, but I'll never believe it. I'm not always right, but I hate admitting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books. While I'm… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It it a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, peopled by unconvincing characters,… — Jonathan Barnes Copy Share Image
If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect ... He has brought personality into literature, not unconsciously and impurely, but so consciously and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I've seen everything from 'Wicked' to 'The Book Of Mormon,' and I don't make any bones of the fact that I love… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
I was, after all, the daughter of a man who believed that to be involved with books was to live at the… — Mary Cantwell Copy Share Image
I started to write a series of fantasy novels when I was eleven. I have never taken anything artistic as seriously; since… — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
“Karma," he said once, "is not a sentence already printed. It is a series of words the author can arrange as she… — Sara Gran Copy Share Image
“i really like when someone reads my book and then review and rate it. this is very important to me because it… — Robert Trouble Johnson Copy Share Image
As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
There's a version of Tony [from "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"] that I think could be heightened. Trying… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
“After all, when we had all the books we needed, we still insisted on finding the highest cliff to jump off. But… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I feel that I'm an essayist and that my best work gets done in that form. I wanted to do a book… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
“Pepper remembered a quote he’d read once, it was attributed to James Hetfield, the lead singer of Metallica. Hetfield was asked the… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
When I published my first work, I thought I would never be able to go back to Lebanon. I thought they'd arrest… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
An invaluable little book… What Makes a Terrorist uses standard tools of economics and statistical analysis to get at the truth about… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
“The worn soles of Daffy's boots skidded on the icy stones. He'd been saving up for a new pair for Christmas, but… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Most of the characters I have in my children's books are grouchy or annoyed about something or are calling each other unfriendly… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“Judge that boy if you must; for debauchery, for objectifying innocence... but before you finalize your verdict, oh innocent reader, I beg… — Jake Vander Ark Copy Share Image
“You will never attain wisdom without walking on different streets, without talking to different people, without reading different books, in short, without… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Well, like in Orwell books, whom I cherish very much as an author, in classical totalitarian regimes, you always have to make… — Ksenia Sobchak Copy Share Image
The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Virtually everything I learned about leadership traits and core values, I learned in the Marine Corps. To this day, I keep a… — Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
“I keep telling you, you don't pay enough attention to the minor characters. A novel should be like a street full of… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
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