That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely. — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go. — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society. — Guo Moruo Copy Share Image
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“Hating "The Great Gatsby" (the novel) is like spitting into the Grand Canyon. It will not be going away anytime soon, but… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid. — Gustavo Perez Firmat Copy Share Image
I move between the two: I write an adult novel, and then I write a children's book. I quite enjoy that. It's… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on… — Alan King Copy Share Image
He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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“Rarely do page-turners written for middle-school kids also ignite excitement in adults. (A notable exception is the series of Harry Potter books.)… — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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You think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world.But then, you read.It was books that taught me… — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image