You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“express written permission of the author. Although the author and publisher have made every effort to ensure that the” — Amy Wright Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it… — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
“Well, my story, surely, would furnish out a surprising kind of novel, if it were to be well told.” — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Relationship is like a book, it takes few seconds to burn but years to write. So write it carefully and never let… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.' — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
MOVE ON. It is just a chapter in the past, but don't close the book - just turn the pages. :) — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shakespeare, I love… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Mêmewars is electricity in language, eccentricity at its best where 'there's a profusion of presents.' This book makes eye contact with she… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
“We are part of a holy community that for three thousand years and more has been formed inside and out by these… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“I mean, mentally you brace yourself for the ending of a novel. As you're reading, you're aware of the fact that there's… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I don't like stories that are too neat and too resolved. I think resolutions can be deadening for the reader. — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
It seems like the darker the books are, the nicer the person is. People say it's the romance writers you've got to… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“A great book is the one you dive in and swim until there is no air left, but you keep swimming, forgetting… — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature. — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'Harry Potter' because it's like lightning… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows. — Nancy Hale Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years… — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982. — J. A. Jance Copy Share Image
I think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide… — David Grann Copy Share Image
The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it's always smarter than you are. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
“If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
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