It wasn't until I hit 20 that I became an obsessive reader, I think, which feels a little funny considering I was… — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
Since my romance novels had all been thrillers as well, it wasn't such a leap for me to move into the straight… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Either the translator leaves the author in peace, as much as is possible, and moves the reader towards him: or he leaves… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
I originally went to Edinburgh for Latin, which I love and the literature is incredible, but then I suddenly realised that languages… — Lady Amelia Windsor Copy Share Image
“It’s like looking at all the students and wondering who’s had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Not everybody wants to call sin 'sin'! Some call it mischief. Some call it rebellion. And hardly anybody can agree where we… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Literature and art are one of a number of relationships I have with the world. Like you have relationships with your friends… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“No, writing has not changed me for the better at all; I have merely used up part of my restless, conscienceless youth.… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I am a passionate reader, having been tutored very early by my mother. I avidly devoured all books on chemistry that I… — Richard J. Roberts Copy Share Image
A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
There's nothing that can drive me from zero to crazy faster than a man who comes up to me and says, 'You… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I am the girl who spends hours huddled in a corner of a library, trying to find what you love the most… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
I don't see love as some perfect happily ever after thing like it is in books and movies. It's more like a… — Melissa Brown Copy Share Image
“Everyone has a golden. It could be anything-a song, a book, a pet, a person. Anything that makes you so happy your… — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
“The modern idea of testing a reader's "comprehension," as distinct from something else a reader may be doing, would have seemed an… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Every reader of the Conversations with the God is invited to self-select, that is, to choose themselves, to be among those who… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You use the intonation of the peasants. Is that taught in your books?” “I knew an Eyllwe woman who taught it to… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
When I started in the comic book business, 'Art Of' books were strictly the provenance of the greats, like Rembrandt and Da… — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“The club book was never intended to be light and titillated reading for the members. Its function is solely to acquaint those… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. "No," she said softly,… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they can… — Andy Grundberg Copy Share Image
“Within a week I walked the streets of Tel-Aviv, I wandered around Budapest and found myself admiring the Architecture of Paris. That's… — Byron Ortiz Copy Share Image
My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah-time or Kwanzaa-time is that people go to bookstores: that they walk around bookstores and look… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“literature enlarges our world of experience to include both more of the physical world and things not yet imagined, giving the “actual… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
The traditional route to success in science fiction is by making a name for yourself in short fiction, so people who read… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes… — Joshua Rogers Copy Share Image
“I feel like a little kid in a toy shop. All those books. I've always wanted to be a writer, but before… — Paula Danziger Copy Share Image
Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The way one perceives a book and a film are totally different. You read a book in the privacy of your room.… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to… — Peter Gizzi Copy Share Image
It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
When historians write the last pages of their books, and the producers of history documentaries sit down to edit the final minutes… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
When scandal has new-minted an old lie, Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply, 'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appears… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
