Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I'm pretty omnivorous - in fact, I don't think of books in terms of genres. J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' books are… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
I didn't read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs'… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
So before I start work on a book, I'm like a pregnant mole - I obsessively tidy and order my closets and… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past.… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Marriages are like certain books, a story where you turn the last page and you think it's over and then there's an… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
“Everybody talks about being a writer, angel. If every novel conceived on a bar stool made it into print, there wood not… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
After the first shock of recognition - a sudden sense of "this is what I'm going to write" - the novel starts… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The Coen brothers said something that helped me, "When you put the book down, you have a certain feeling, a certain understanding.… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“In the quiet spaces opened up by the prolonged, undistracted reading of a book, people made their own associations, drew their own… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Readers will recall that the little evidence collected seemed to point to the strange and confusing figure of an unidentified Air Force… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to… — Bill Porter Copy Share Image
I try very hard to tell stories and not lecture. I try to approach things as an amateur and not an expert,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the fresh load of guests would turn up before we had got rid of the previous group, and the chaos was… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
I'm a science fiction author at heart, and what I like about the Cthulhu Mythos setting is that, at its core, it… — David Conyers Copy Share Image
I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“a moving river of light that flowed above the dark water like its negative image and attained a transient and fragile dominion… — William Gay Copy Share Image
What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned…I had… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I cannot and don't really want to control my mind, soul, or heart when I write and must recognize that I don't… — Lidija Dimkovska Copy Share Image
My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then… — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
Essentially I feel like all of that pressure when you're making the first of a franchise of [movies based on] books that… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
Schoolchildren all over America are told to write to authors-often to authors whom they have never before heard of, whose work they… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
“I went back every evening, after work, for nearly a year. I learned the meaning of the cud of a leaf and… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“Shelves full of books are all around me. Opening the different volumes I take a look, and find the pages covered with… — Jonathan D. Spence Copy Share Image
“Then I thought of reading—the nice and subtle happiness of reading. This was enough, this joy not dulled by Age, this polite… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
“Morrie.. had developed his own culture - long before he got sick. He read books to find new ideas for his classes,… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“I couldn't get to sleep. The book lay nearby. A thin object on the divan. So strange. Between two cardboard covers were… — Ismail Kadare Copy Share Image
I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“I have known the love and vengeance of wounded women, and the difficult book and the music that took the place of… — Ricardo M. de Ungria Copy Share Image
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