Being an author is fun. It's a great job, because I can stay up as late as I want, and if I… — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“There may even be a real relation between certain kinds of effectiveness in literature and totalitarianism in politics. But although the fictions… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
In my own experience with films, books, plays, TV, I don't want somebody telling me what it means, because I think I… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Yet it is the masculine values that prevail. Speaking crudely, football and sport are ‘important’; the worship of fashion, the buying of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There are days now where I think, "Oh man, that would've been a great entry," but I'm putting the pen down until… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
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If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always… — Robert Dugoni Copy Share Image
One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“I think the Bible is largely an amazing and beautiful book of fictional stories from which we can glean the most wholesome… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“Literature interprets the world, but it's also shaped by that world, and we're living through one of the greatest economic and technological… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
We live too much in books and not enough in nature, and we are very much like the simpleton of a Pliny… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not a genre that has much respect in China. Critics have long been discouraged from paying attention to the… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
My first book is called 'The New Age Millennium: An Expose of Symbols, Slogans and Hidden Agendas.' When the book first came… — Demond Wilson Copy Share Image
Besides," he said breezily, "were it not for misunderstandings, we would be sadly lacking in great literature." She looked at him questioningly.… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
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“Lotus a star of detachment sultry feverishness of a tawdry universe incense of rejected poems lie in the void of me a… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping of my tale so… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
“It’s kind of sad how much value I was placing in the heaps of books I owned. Obviously it was more than… — Joshua Fields Millburn Copy Share Image
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
“I am a book-collector, a proud avocationist in what Eric Quayle (wrongly) asserts to be the "least vicious" of hobbies (we are… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I have always discouraged young writers from self-publishing, by which I mean going to a vanity publisher and spending your hard earned… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
I call it people pleasing. Look that up in your phy book. Be happy your not good at it and learn your… — Hemantsmarty Copy Share Image
I read the books and I really, really wanted to play the part. I started kundalini yoga, kickboxing and running, and completely… — Gwendoline Christie Copy Share Image
Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
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It's a really common trap to want your life to live up to some standard that you believe in, and then you… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
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