Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
We preach sermons, write books on apologetics, conduct city-wide evangelistic campaigns. For those alienated from the church, that approach no longer has… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
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We have this atomic idea of process where we want to believe that the creator of the book or the show had… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
We tend to think of Hamlet as one of the wisest, most intellectually prodigious characters in all of literature. Which he is,… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer,… — Wale Copy Share Image
The author describes how impressed she was with the detailed storyboards that outlined her movie – "not just sketches, but real art".… — Bethany Hamilton Copy Share Image
The comic-book industry today is not what it was back then, unfortunately. Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've… — Al Feldstein Copy Share Image
“Reading may be the last secretive behavior that is neither pathological or prosecutable. It is certainly the last refuge from the real-time… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
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Even if you are lucky enough to sell a trilogy, you don't know if you'll ever get to write that whole trilogy.… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
When you use the form of a novel, and you say 'I,' you are also saying 'I' for someone else. When you… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
No matter what I've published - and you can look it up, I've published quite a lot in science, quite a few… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
I watch some kids ask the cafeteria ladies to sign their books. What do they write: "Hope your chicken patties never bleed?"… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
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“People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline...The motion of the… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Books entered my house under cover of night, from the four winds, smuggled in by woodland creatures, and then they never left.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we want to write, it makes sense to read—and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“I am told that César Aira writes two books a year, at least, some of which are published by a little Argentinean… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the best book in the world - and I… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I've never read a book on shape. I've read books on gesture; I've read tons of books on color, surface, field, ground,… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“What the author of Genesis wants to tell us, I think, is that man, when united with God, is not divided. In… — Francisco X. Stork Copy Share Image
For example, an author whose parents fled a war but he himself was born in the country where they fled to, and… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
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The Chicken Soup for the Soul' books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches. The first… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
I'm sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz.… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
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Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I've started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
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I love grand scale. One of the things that everybody mentions is that my novels are beautiful objects in the sense that… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
