I don't relate to the 'Twilight' books or movies at all, but I'm obsessed with it as a pop culture phenomenon -… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
“So, what you're saying is that I bring out your book - wielding, short tempered side?" He hooked his foot through the… — Lani Woodland Copy Share Image
In Holland, things were pretty stale for me. Even though there were a lot of good influences and a certain openness to… — Ari Marcopoulos Copy Share Image
Over the years, whenever I've felt that little twinkle in the hairs on the back of my neck., as I encountered an… — Arnold Gingrich Copy Share Image
I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library)… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
“How simple it could be! The answer to the problem of being anything was being it. How admirable Teddy was! From the… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
“an eleventh-century CE Muslim prince from Tabaristan wrote in a book for his son, “Make it your constant endeavor to improve cultivation… — David Christian Copy Share Image
“Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence. Some… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I can't blame anyone for being pessimistic when they look around, after all the blood spilled and energy spent to gain ground… — James Vance Copy Share Image
“There are things written concerning you in the book of life; that you need to keep opening, till you discover them and… — ANIKOR Daniel Copy Share Image
As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with real surprise. The… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When reading you have the opportunity to pause for thought & spark your imagination. It develops intellect. Nothing more threatening to a… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Do you eat decayed food? No. Well, don't feed your mind with decayed books. Be as careful with the nutrition of your… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
This book is presented in three parts. Part One is an examination of the relationship of humanity to the universe. It covers… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
“I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I included receipts, faxes, newspaper clippings, all sorts of things. I've read novels composed entirely of emails or letters, but not assembled… — Brian Pinkerton Copy Share Image
When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be… — Sarah Beth Durst Copy Share Image
“Drug addicts, especially young ones, are conformists flocking together in sticky groups, and I do not write for groups, nor approve of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
“maybe an hour in the morning or at night and just dedicate it to that skill you have. Read books about it.… — Steve Robinson Copy Share Image
We have been counseled to "seek . . . out of the best books words of wisdom." It is pointed out in… — Henry D. Taylor Copy Share Image
...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I think that what influences us in literature comes less from what we love and more from what we happen to pick… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“Tugs used to think that everyone's name was in the dictionary, and when she had realized it was only hers, both Tugs… — Anne Ylvisaker Copy Share Image
I wish I had read Sacred Pregnancy when I was pregnant instead of the dozen books I had to piece together to… — Mayim Bialik Copy Share Image
“I have drawn from books written by learned experts and also upon my observation of living creatures in whom I have long… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Indeed, mysteries lead readers through an endless variety of subjects and settings; yet sometimes devotees of detection seek to be transported though… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
'The Catcher in the Rye' was targeted by some schools as a book too risque to read and certainly not appropriate for… — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
