When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse.… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and… — David Shields Copy Share Image
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Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
“In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
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“I don’t think that the definition of library has changed. Libraries have never been repositories solely of books. In Alexandria for instance,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
“Balanced there, suicides sometimes meet, raging at the fruit, a pumped-up moon, leaving the bread they mistook for a kiss, leaving the… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Many sci-fi authors, we know, are as clever and tricky as so many Coyotes. Ms. Le Guin, though, has matured from the… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
“see what your friends are reading and see your Want to Read, Currently Reading, and Read shelves. When you create a new… — Amazon Copy Share Image
There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“And when the war's over, someday, some year, the books can be written again, the people will be called in, one by… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Remember, we are all part of a great story that is really about God, not us. He is the number one character… — Daniel Hochhalter Copy Share Image
Brandon McCaw got a 100% in his vocabulary test in the making it work book chapter 17 pages (92-95) 10 vocabulary words,… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
People come, people go'' they'll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
“"I always read everything when I was a kid-and I do mean everything, from Nancy Drew to Dickens to my dad's John… — Barbara O'Neal Copy Share Image
Look at Austen. In her novels, you get a dance, followed by an encounter, followed by a letter, then a period of… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
There are three reasons why this book came into being. First, throughout the 33 years I've been writing recipes - although I'm… — Delia Smith Copy Share Image
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When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
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It's only in bad novels that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
They haven't written the books to teach us all we want to know about our existence and us. And a large number… — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
One book that I heard was circulating the Green Zone was "Bureaucracy Does Its Thing" by Robert Komer , who worked for… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Making your bed could be a piece of art, and writing a book could be a piece of art. You could also… — Matthew Brannon Copy Share Image
I painted myself into a corner by writing a whole book on this one period. The summer of 1927 came to an… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“And, hey. You. Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing.… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
I spent many years in college studying English literature. I was on the verge of attending grad school to get a Ph.D.… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
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You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Oh, how few find time for prayer! There is time for everything else, time to sleep and time to eat, time to… — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
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One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function.… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
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