“Some days I tell myself that my mission is to say something about the art and sometimes the bliss of limitation. And… — Fredrik Sjöberg Copy Share Image
I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I literally fell into this business. I never came down one day and said, "Atticus' thought of the day...I want to be… — Atticus Shaffer Copy Share Image
“The behaviour of physical, nonbiological objects is so simple that it is feasible to use existing mathematical language to describe it, which… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the beginning I revelled in being so rebellious and bad. I had recently discovered the new age book You Can Heal… — Joanne Brodie Copy Share Image
Nature and training (in any sport or art) can teach us all the spiritual laws I describe in another book, The Laws… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
The book known by the name of the Apocalypse, has seemed to be until now unintelligible, merely because people persisted to see… — Charles-Francois Dupuis Copy Share Image
In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
When you're an established name, you know that a children's book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
“The book clearly resonated with Amazon’s founder. On the last page, a section completed a few weeks before his death, Walton wrote:… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
That was the hardest thing for me. When it was published that I was going to play Tommen, all the fans of… — Dean-Charles Chapman Copy Share Image
“Gwen, a woman with BPD, talks about her inability to decipher the world around her. “On the day I was born, all… — Valerie Porr M.A Copy Share Image
On the other couch a women sits with a young boy looking through a picture book about Babar the Elephant. When I… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I'm glad that I no longer get my hopes up. It sure has been a living hell having to feel the same… — Mia Lugo Copy Share Image
“When I read a novel I am not here. I am transported to far-off places, my eyes unseeing of the words on… — Nancy Moser Copy Share Image
My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books.… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I decided to make myself a little less precious with my storytelling. I think you can see from the first three pieces… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
“...grown up with very bad contemporary literature, and they find it much more fifficult to approach earlier writing than we do. The… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The book says [Lincoln in the Bardo],"I really need this sci-fi device of a ghost inhabiting another person." You say okay kind… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
If you hear some bad collectivistic notions, chances are that they came from [modern] liberals. But if you hear or read something… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
It is axiomatic among writers that no one ever sues the writer of an unsuccessful book. Just let a book go over… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
For most of my life, when I've finished the book I'm writing, there've always been as many as two or three other… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“I could probably write a book on the complexities of our relationship, on my constantly shifting emotions, my ever-changing mind, but let's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Collector [John Fowles book] does such a good job of capturing the mindset of a capturer, and also that's become a… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Everything looks beautiful. The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
“I don’t have the heart to tell my sons that the older one gets, the less funny literature becomes—and they would refuse… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Many Americans have never owned a book, and I'm not talking about because of the recent digital revolution. I'm talking about before… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
It's a difficult thing when you try and make a film of a book that you really love. You have about two… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
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