It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to… — Horace Copy Share Image
In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Eric Schlosser's book on the economy and strategies of the fast-food business should be read by anyone who likes to take their… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
“Dear Diary, All that she left inside the box was a blank book and a name. You are the book, and I… — Diane René Christian Copy Share Image
The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
“Worrying about your book’s marketing plan when you haven’t even finished writing the book is a noble obstacle. Weighing grams of carbohydrates… — Jon Acuff Copy Share Image
You never know what's going to happen en route to the airport or station and the last thing you want is to… — Vera Lynn Copy Share Image
And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
“At the age of ninety-two, James spent months hunched over the kitchen table, learning the alphabet, practicing his signature, and slowly progressing… — Linda Kaplan Thaler Copy Share Image
“People don't read anymore. And, when they do, they don't read books like this one, but instead read books that depress them,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I think it's likely that the civilizing effect of literature has done most of the work, and still continues to do. Look… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
It is a happy day when I am asked to publicly recommend a book. It is also a dilemma. When I consider… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Had my parents allowed me, when I read a book, to pay a visit to the region it described, I should have… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“the perversity is not lost on me that the most oft-cited, well-respected, best-selling books about the caretaking of babies—Winnicott, Spock, Sears, Weissbluth—… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Did you just throw a book at me? In my own den?” “Yes. And I’d throw it again!” Fearghus scratched his head… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
Of his new book, Don says: “It might be the greatest book ever written. I don’t think anybody is going to read… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, most of the books written about the subject aren't very good because they just focus on the more hateful movies… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
It's intuitive in terms of when I read a piece of material or I hear about a project. I'm a writer, so… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
“Marcus Aurelius wrote in his wonderful book, Meditations, “The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes… — Bohdi Sanders Copy Share Image
The Bible, that powerful book, has many effects: it comforts, counsels, instructs, and brings us into the presence of God. But trying… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
“At the time that this book is being written, I am single. If you've ever heard that song by Beyoncé, "Single Ladies",… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
“The lady who works in the grocery store at the corner of my block is called Denise, and she's one of America's… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
What we lack is a basic willingness to see literature as providing some kind of necessary foundation. Our society still expects schools… — Gwee Li Sui Copy Share Image
I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library,… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I would not waste five years of my life in order to send to the Israeli readers a simple message such as,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Read. It makes you more intelligent. It’s that simple. We all see the universe through the tiny keyhole of our own eyes,… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“It was not pastoral teaching, or small group fellowship, or worship services, or books of theology — rather, they mentioned suffering. “People… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but they are not writing.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“The absence of attention to this way of talking about feelings and literature not only is specific to recent literary scholarship on… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
“There was something she found intensely attractive about a man with a thirst for knowledge. Marc's obsessive love of books had been--she… — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't… — Jill Ciment Copy Share Image
