I don't need to read the news. I see it on the faces of everyone I meet. — Greg Brown Copy Share Image
Many, many people can write books. I just happen to be one of them. — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“Dehypnotize the world, my friend, and you shall witness the dawn of real religion – the religion, not of books, but of people.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone with one's books.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“In books there’s nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space.… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and… — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
“Beside Allah, then lead them to the way to hell; On that day they will be submissive. Some of them will turn… — Compton Gage Copy Share Image
“Assign each new hire to read a book and write a one-page report so you can see how serious they are about… — Patrick Bet-David Copy Share Image
In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living,… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
“Are there weapons in a bookstore?' 'It's a store full of books, which are objects that can be thrown as well as… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
I have no idea other than where my readers are located, roughly. They could be 12. They could be 50. I just… — Susanna Lau Copy Share Image
If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
“...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
We often forget that the author of our faith must be the finisher of it also. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I like books that are exciting and that make you think about things as well. — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Unlike a book or a film depression doesn’t have to be about something.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge.” — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
“There's not enough coffee in the world to fuel all the books I want to write” — Chris Stocking Copy Share Image
“A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Create the worlds of your choice by writing the books you want.” — Marcia Carrington Copy Share Image
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