“I have not written for their pleasure... I have never flattered their opinions, nor their pride; nor will I. Neither will I… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
Then I realized what separated us: what I thought about him could not reach him; it was psychology, the kind they write… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The stakes in my books tend to be kind of ridiculously high. In 'Kid vs. Squid,' the question is whether or not… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
“The author makes a tacit deal with the reader. You hand them a backpack. You ask them to place certain things in… — Frank Conroy Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
“As you will see in this book, there is a mountain of scientific evidence to show that the healthiest diet you can… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
I love picture books. I think some of the best people in children's books are the ones who create their own picture… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and… — Bella Thorne Copy Share Image
I think the biggest influence on the book, as far as the humor goes, comes, at least indirectly, from the men I… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
You can't sell a book in America if you don't dump on Bush. That's the cheapest shot in the world. You cannot… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
I had this big complex because I didn't go to college. There was a whole era where I got linked to everybody.… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Feed your creative mind. Feed your joyful, selfless heart. Feed your soul to grow. Feed with books, music, painting or arts, Feed… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
“Shannon's books are not long at all as she feels that something should be left up to the reader; no you don't… — Shannon McRoberts Copy Share Image
“Do you want to be in our mob?" Elena asks him. "When did we get a mob?" he says. "We don't have… — Paul Acampora Copy Share Image
“My mother was an excellent woman. Pious, virtuous. Kind. But she was not the intellectual equal of my father. Not by any… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
They say you don't want to know how sausage is made. Book coverage is like sausage in that way: better not to… — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
I'm always tempted in the back of my mind to continue to write things in the Star Trek universe, in the novels… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches… — Mildred D. Taylor Copy Share Image
This variety of objects will suspend, for some time, the course of the narrative; but the interruption will be censured only by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You can have your beliefs, but if you're not devout, you can't quite believe that something which grows out of a story,… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
In the Book of Acts faith was for each believer a beginning, not an end; it was a journey, not a bed… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
“The Complete Work is essentially dramatic, thought it takes different forms - prose passages in this first volume, poems and philosophies in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I read one book where the characters never said anything; instead, they spent all their time grunting and bleating and hissing and… — Tana French Copy Share Image
When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
I was doing a show in L.A. called 'Celebrity Autobiography,' where celebrities read excerpts from other celebrities' books and hang themselves with… — Scott Adsit Copy Share Image
“The Empress Sabina had long ago formed her own theory about the nonsense in travel books. No traveler, having gone to the… — Ruth Downie Copy Share Image
“He flipped through the book as he ambled toward her. "Good God. There are whole pages of description. The roguish wave of… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Before writing, I start with a series of questions, specific things I need to know before I can write the book... That… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to… — J. Arthur Thomson Copy Share Image
“The Light and the Darkness both flow in to Delhi. Gurgaon, where Mr. Ashok lived, is the bright, modern end of the… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“He began to explicate a detailed and heretofore unformulated hypothesis about the human mind’s psychological readiness to read a given book at… — Phillip Lewis Copy Share Image
Tony Vigorito has grown a cult following of thousands for one reason—his stuff is fun to read... It’s… filled with the freshness… — Kris Saknussemm Copy Share Image
I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
