They're so effusive with their love... theatre fans. I'm a big comic book fan and there's a lot of parallels with them… — Okieriete Onaodowan Copy Share Image
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
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My family is really boring. They have a coffee table book called 'Pictures We Took Just to Use Up the Rest of… — Penelope Lombard Copy Share Image
“Many go to great lengths to discover God's will or to hear His voice, yet we only need to open His Book.” — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“This book I'm reading says I should set one small goal each day. Yesterday I got out of bed like there was… — Leigh Stein Copy Share Image
Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“He had one room above a thrift store. He had a trunk of books by Ayn Rand. He was short-sighted and reclusive,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Murakami played with the formulas of mass literature—what is elsewhere termed formulaic fiction—but at the last minute subverted the expectations of those… — Matthew Strecher Copy Share Image
Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x… — Will Self Copy Share Image
...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a… — Lesley Conger Copy Share Image
“The author gives an interesting naval etymology of the word "opportunity". It referred to days in which sailing ships had to wait… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
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All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
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My mom gave me the children stories of the Bible. I memorized that book at the age of nine. — Rza Copy Share Image
It is always wonderful to be a curious comet wandering in the galaxy of a good book. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm a library book. I've been used, tossed around, and put down. I'm just waiting for someone who think… — Francine Chiar Copy Share Image
I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
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What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film. — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
“How much this book of life changes, he thought. And we are not the ones to write the pages.” — Naomi Benaron Copy Share Image
When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are… — Nancy O'Dell Copy Share Image
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Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
You know, gynecology has a role; sex is a gift. And literature is not about sending messages. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The shortness of life, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Author's Notes: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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