Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
Not a lot of contemporary fiction is written about brothers and sisters. Salinger's Franny and Zooey was an inspiration for me. In… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
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I was not a vampire or werewolf fan at all. I'd never even heard of the series. I auditioned for the role,… — Taylor Lautner Copy Share Image
A new biography of Madonna came out last week, and apparently the biography lists all the men she's slept with. The book… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“I love so many books and authors that it's hard to name just a few, but I'm always particularly excited when new… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“And Goneville? It is a name that kept coming up as I was writing this book, and each time its meaning shifted… — Nick Bollinger Copy Share Image
“A mama's boy, loner, intellectual, voracious reader and gourmand, Dimitri was a man of esoteric skills and appetites: a gambler, philosopher, gardener,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The person who wins the Nobel Prize is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I didn't even notice that my shoes were full of mud by the time I reached the rocky shore. There was ragged… — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant… — Alaa Alghamdi Copy Share Image
Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
It is time to return to close reading, to a serious and painstaking examination of an author's methods, of his style. Do… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The last time you came to see me there were anchors in your eyes, hardback books in your posture. You were the… — Mindy Nettifee Copy Share Image
“he wrote of these things and utter nonsense in the same breath, and this made me dismiss the book. Until I finished… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“I was downstairs, reading." " Now?" I strained to see her face. She was smiling, it appeared. "Yes, now," she said. "It's… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that,… — Phil Mickelson Copy Share Image
With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially… — Shawn Johnson Copy Share Image
I try to satisfy the desires that people have to have their books personalized. That's a value, or feature, of bibliophilia that… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
When I became a photographer, I took Mums talent for granted. She would take pictures out the car window and then they… — Mary McCartney Copy Share Image
“For all the talk about the merging of film and video game, and for all its inevitability, perhaps the secret of true… — Devin C. Griffiths Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
“Doug Harvey was a stickler for the rules. When Harvey was in the minor leagues, all the other umpires would go out… — Peter Golenbock Copy Share Image
“I met a librian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she wanats… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I am a book also, words and thoughts and stories held together by flesh. We open and close ourselves to the world.… — Ari Berk Copy Share Image
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I'm good at loving books. I'm good at loving soft bed sheets. I'm good at loving coffees and teas. I am good… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
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“In England in the 19th century, advances in printing methods, combined with the rise of a prosperous middle class, engendered a booming… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
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It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Whatever reader desires to have a thorough comprehension of an author's thoughts cannot take a better method than by putting himself into… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“My goal is to sweep the reader away from his world and bring him along for the adventure. Learning something new shouldn’t… — H.B. Bolton Copy Share Image
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