My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
“Into this stronghold of royalist tradition and prejudice, Shelley unloaded truckloads of French philosophy, German horror novels, his solar microscope and several… — Richard Holmes Copy Share Image
As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested… — Chris Cooper Copy Share Image
“The Idiot. I have read it once, and find that I don't remember the events of the book very well--or even all… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Bezos dismissed those objections and insisted that to succeed in books as Apple had in music, Amazon needed to control the entire… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“You must be hard on yourself and know when it’s time to quit, but you must be even more relentless when it… — Chris Erzfeld Copy Share Image
“Look at all the Eastern writers who've written great Western literature. Kazuo Ishiguro. You'd never guess that The Remains of the Day… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
You will most appreciate 'Freddy and Fredericka' if you are familiar with the story of the Fall, the Good Hermit, 'Tom Jones,'… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Every book presents its own specific challenges, or should, and you're right that this one has a preoccupation with uncertainty. In this,… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
In two novels written forty years apart, a man and a woman tell stories of their love. . . . Taken together… — Isabel Colegate Copy Share Image
Don't believe a teaching just because you've heard it from a man who's supposed to be holy, or because it's contained in… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
“What shall I do, today? Visit the pub? Sit down in a garden with a book? A bird flies past. Where is… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
Brendan O’Meara’s Six Weeks in Saratoga is a victory to be savored by those who treasure good writing in general and tales… — Madeleine Blais Copy Share Image
Essence of newspaper is the large size. You are a reader you're an eagle flying over the desert, you're scanning. You see… — Russ Wilcox Copy Share Image
“Those that spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular… — M.R. James Copy Share Image
Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“You are fond of history! And so are Mr. Allen and my father; and I have two brothers who do not dislike… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Schools and parents can team up to find books that kids will really get excited about - that will make them say,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“He knew he was in love with her the moment he realized what love was. It was just like what you read… — Thisuri Wanniarachchi Copy Share Image
“Romantic literature often presents the individual as somebody caught in a struggle against the state and the market. Nothing could be further… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could… — Karin Fossum Copy Share Image
“I couldn't picture heaven. How could a place be any good at all if it didn't have the things there you enjoyed… — Robert R. McCammon Copy Share Image
A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
“Tonight, however, Dickens struck him in a different light. Beneath the author’s sentimental pity for the weak and helpless, he could discern… — Margaret Irwin Copy Share Image
In her enthusiasms she had always looked for something tangible: she had always loved church for its flowers, music for its romantic… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“She imagined the reading she did now as like climbing inside one of those deep old beds she'd seen in a museum,… — Tessa Hadley Copy Share Image
Not one piece of evidence has ever been found to support the Book of Mormon-not a trace of the large cities it… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
The first book I really loved was 'Little Women' - I'd have given anything for Beth to have been allowed to live;… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
All we did in Alabama was have a read through with the script, but there was, 'No, well, it needs more. You've… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Most secret societies—at least those you can read about in books or on the Internet—are collegiate. Or adult... They are like fraternities,… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks.… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
Lemony Snicket. Now, I'm told - the books, of course, starting from the very first one, became hugely popular, selling millions and… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life,… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
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