Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too. — Ali Shaheed Muhammad Copy Share Image
The more I read, the more I learn, the more I discover that I know nothing. — Nick Dear Copy Share Image
Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
You can't have too many books featuring people of color, just like you can't have too many books featuring white people. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't doubt it for a second if any of these literature teachers had a hand-sculpted custom-made replica of Shakespeare's dick.” — Eliza Gubbins Copy Share Image
“Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to… — Jean Douchet Copy Share Image
“The scent of book leather and lemons enveloped him, and his head went light. Books and clean woman. Had God ever divined… — Kristen Callihan Copy Share Image
“Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.” — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
My problem is never ideas. I've got more than I'll ever have time to write. It's all about how many I can… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“As such, the first question you should be asking yourself isn’t “Is this a good book?” but "Is this really the story… — Rachel Aaron Copy Share Image
“I love the process of creating a story that will resonate in my readers lives ~ either inspiring them, educating them, or… — Kathryn Albright Copy Share Image
The White Queen in many ways it is representative of the sort of drama that I'm talking about. The books by Philippa… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
“Religious language,” write the authors of Soul Searching, “is like any other language: to learn how to speak it, one needs first… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“The problem is not people being educated. The problem is that they are educated just enough to believe what they've been taught,… — MJ DeMarco Copy Share Image
“Modernist literature with all its vast apparatus was an instrument, a form of perception, and once absorbed, the insights it brought could… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
You need to know a little about a lot to write a book. The amount of research that goes into it- it's… — James Murray Copy Share Image
I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops, I went at once to Hastings & Sons Bookshop upon… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“I just can't help thinking what a real shake up it would give people if, all of a sudden, there were no… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess. — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
I read the script. If I like it, I would do anything I am asked to. — Sushant Singh Rajput Copy Share Image
All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I used to read a lot of Steinbeck, and I admired Roger Miller and Bob Dylan. — John Prine Copy Share Image
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image