Most of the characters I have in my children's books are grouchy or annoyed about something or are calling each other unfriendly… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
It would be worth the while to select our reading, for books are the society we keep; to read only the serenely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
When I was about 25, I went to a hand reader, this Indian guy in a funky neighborhood. He said: The height… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
“untrue. The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Parenting is not logical. If it were, we would never have to read a book, never need a family therapist, and never… — Jeanne Elium Copy Share Image
I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the… — John Green Copy Share Image
I only like naturalistic stories. I love short, fantastic stories that cast a spell over the reader, that transport you instantly to… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
“The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Readers find most flashbacks intolerable. Yet a lot of neophyte writers flash back like mad. Why? No one but the Creator of… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
“Tessa craned her head back to look at Will. “You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“The more freely a librarian mingles with readers, and the greater the amount of assistance he renders them, the more intense does… — Samuel Green Copy Share Image
If you look at the beginning of children's entertainment in literature, the first books that were written for kids were cautionary tales.… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
Novels are routinely denigrated when characters are not found to be likable. Is Raskolnikov likable? Is King Lear? The plethora of such… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I'm just a girl. I love being called pretty, but I'll never believe it. I'm not always right, but I hate admitting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books. While I'm… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It it a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, peopled by unconvincing characters,… — Jonathan Barnes Copy Share Image
“When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than its creator's have… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Here's my theory: I think both fiction and role-playing games involve a narrative journey. When that journey never ends, it feeds an… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“Something seems to happen to people when they meet a journalist, and what happens is exactly the opposite of what one would… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“This book is dedicated to the Ancient Ones, to the Lord of Abominations, Humwawa, whose face is a mass of entrails, whose… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Mein Kampf, this terrible book of Adolph Hitler is outlawed. I made a point in the Dutch parliament that I say to… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
Once I discovered the endless fascination of doing the research and of doing the writing, I knew I had found what I… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I've read over 200 self improvement books. I know what to do to change my life around, but I have the fear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can read all the books you want, watch all the movies and get all of the advice, but until you're actually… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
“Who have we here? some amateur in fights! an inquisitive, wonder- seeking non-combatant, who has volunteered to serve his king, and perhaps… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“Books that take us to an exotic place and never let the grit of that place get under our fingernails...are far less… — Andrew Lazo Copy Share Image
“Judge that boy if you must; for debauchery, for objectifying innocence... but before you finalize your verdict, oh innocent reader, I beg… — Jake Vander Ark Copy Share Image
“You will never attain wisdom without walking on different streets, without talking to different people, without reading different books, in short, without… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Well, like in Orwell books, whom I cherish very much as an author, in classical totalitarian regimes, you always have to make… — Ksenia Sobchak Copy Share Image
The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“I keep telling you, you don't pay enough attention to the minor characters. A novel should be like a street full of… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
Virtually everything I learned about leadership traits and core values, I learned in the Marine Corps. To this day, I keep a… — Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
One of the things that did intrigue me about when I read the pilot - because I had not read the books… — Sasha Alexander Copy Share Image
God's the seamtress that tailor-fitted my pain yo I got scriptures in my brain I can spit at yo dane straight the… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
