“I have been asked to explain what I meant by saying that "Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity." I have… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The Book of Mormon was written for us today. God is the author of the book. It is a record of a… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps -… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“On the first day of the second term, Yaw watched the new students amble in. They were always well-behaved children, these boys,… — Yaa Gyasi Copy Share Image
“Lesa giggled. "Sounds like one of those romance books you read." "It does," I started giggling. "But, oh Lordie Lord, it's true.… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“As for 'too much description,' well, opinions differ. We write the books we want to read. And I want to read books… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“It's been about six months since I've had something in a cast. Kids at school laugh and call me a klutz. This… — Hannah Moskowitz Copy Share Image
“That night, Hallie was relieved when Linda Soares, the town librarian who'd spent years trying to impress Nick with her low-cut shirts… — Patry Francis Copy Share Image
Children's books are looked on as a sideline of literature. A special smile. They are usually thought to be associated with women.… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
Wal-mart started selling “Vampire Home Defense Kits”, including holy water, crosses, stakes, mallets, and a book of quick blessings to bar vampires… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
“If your author platform is not well built, you may lose readers to an inferior product that was simply easier to find… — Carole Jelen Copy Share Image
“A story is alive, as you and I are. It is rounded by muscle and sinew. Rushed with blood. Layered with skin,… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades,… — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
The best way to learn to write is to read in the genre you might be interested in; then, you need to… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
Not to any really influential effect, but certainly there have been comments that have surprised me. It's surprising sometimes to get particular… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“In this age of censorship I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves… — Kadir Nelson Copy Share Image
A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in… — Charles Anthon Copy Share Image
At home, my parents were quite old, so the surrounding was of elder people. There was no noise. Reading books was encouraged;… — Kalki Koechlin Copy Share Image
What did it mean to be called “lord”? I’ll assume you’ve never had the honor, since I doubt any of you happen… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I always enjoyed doing monster books. Monster books gave me the opportunity to draw things out of the ordinary. Monster books were… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
“Come here, Cal," she says real gentle, and I come close. Read me something." I open up the book I'm holding, a… — Heather Henson Copy Share Image
In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
My books are always tactical, bullet lists, this is what you need to do because I'm trying to appeal to people who… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
Blackness, any sort of difference, is not a burden. Relegating blackness or other sorts of difference to serious books that explicitly engage… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the novel as a medium has a very low signal-to-noise ratio. By which I mean: there are… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew -- in the incontestable way that children know things… — Martha Cooley Copy Share Image
My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination,… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
“There are a large number of people in the room, but one is unaware of them. They are in the books. At… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions;… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“John Keats said, ‘Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather, and a little music played out of doors by somebody I… — Jean-Pierre Alaux Copy Share Image
“Blanche Ingram, after having repelled, by supercilious taciturnity, some efforts of Mrs Dent and Mrs Eshton to draw her into conversation, had… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Once the writer was at the deathbed of a fellow writer. What interested his dying colleague more than anything else was what… — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
The books that I'm writing, you can write them only when you're amongst your people. You're not going to find it on… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics… — John Scott Copy Share Image
